Do "postrats" and other adjacents even care about intellectual progress in any meaningful sense?
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Replying to @aphercotropist
just to get an idea of what you mean - what are some examples of intellectual progress?
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Replying to @literalbanana
The entire history of western philosophy and most of the ways you can subdivide that, even the ones that were exploring dead ends. The history of mathematics. Add in technological progress and you get the sciences. Add in aesthetic progress and you get pre 20th century arts
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Replying to @aphercotropist @literalbanana
Arbutus Tree Retweeted Arbutus Tree
See this subtweet for a little bit of context/details about what I think they're missinghttps://mobile.twitter.com/aphercotropist/status/1243602981586534400 …
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Arbutus Tree @aphercotropistThere's a point at which all this being super charitable and generous interpretation and steelmanning just means everyone is overinterpreting things into their own worldview and everyone talks past each other. It's a way to make vaguepoasts and insight porn workShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @aphercotropist @literalbanana
I see postrats posting things, long form. Insight porn. It has this air to it that suggests it's trying to go somewhere but it just gives illusory understanding, vague analogy, no rigor, no details, no hard work, never goes anywhere.
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Replying to @aphercotropist @literalbanana
In the adjacent patch of Buddhism, I'm at the beginning of an enormous amount of leg work cross referencing Dharmic accounts, internal experience, and neuroscience + psychology. 80% of my effort here is in 60s-90s neurocience scientific literature on emotion.
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I really don't know if this is a possible task.
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I know we need psychology to separate demand effects from the effectiveness of interventions (meditation instruction).
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Neuroscience of emotion provides an additional lens to look at Buddhist maps. I don't know where this leads. For me personally it's been very useful to give a lot more meaning to Buddhist terminology.
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e.g. Tanha aka thirst/longing/greed maps on to Lateral Hypothalamic Corridor and the SEEKING emotional command system. (LHC is activated by homeostatic appetitive signals like thirst)
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Understanding this helps me clarify my views about what I'm experiencing. This kind of connection could form a scientific-materialistic component of an explanation accompanying meditative guidance.
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