i keep getting the impression that human behavior is almost entirely context dependent, even if it doesn't *feel* like it
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there are probably some deep models here. by context, i mean most concretely physical place, and that's easiest to see with mammal relatives like rats who can be conditioned with +/- associations with place
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but I also mean context as it extends to the abstract: models, maps, ideas
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and context as social reality this friend, that friend, your partner, work, an interest group
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i remember reading about sex differences in human navagation and memory. men tended to have an advantage dead reckoning, remembering in space women tended to have an advantage associatively navigating, using landmarks and relation
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im going to jump around a bit cause thats what we do with first drafts. theres a thing that was holding me up: what's the relationship between context and emotion?
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(two things I need to verify) i've heard folk with destroyed emotional systems are essentially catatonic lesions on the hippocampus of a cat lead to the cat ceaselessly exploring, it doesn't get bored
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observing my own mind - my emotions depend highly on context - context is [place/social/physical model/conceptual model] - is context ever not associative or spacial? it doesn't feel like it. like that's the nature of space and relation. or relation period.
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im trying to figure out where this thread wants to go. it feels mostly like an exploration of context.
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final tired thought of the night context (orientation) and emotion are separate systems with high amounts of bidirectional influence
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emotion enacts behavior appropriate to context two main flavors approach, withdraw curiosity/interest observe, explore, interact, manipulate, purposefully employ fear flee, withdraw, freeze, watch, avoid ...
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