with most people, enabling them to access their full cognitive resources for interacting with the world is mostly a matter of enticing those resources out of the profound dissociation that the routine social practice of interpersonal torture has driven them into
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what does this mean, like, what dissocation what interpersonal torture srsly what the beans are you on about
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okay, in this tweet: https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1037400112383905799 … what if the part of my psyche that performed the instantaneous systems design didn't do that because it wasn't paying attention to my interaction with devops guy because it was busy fantasizing about something else entirely
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Chaos @chaosprimein conversation with devops guy, redesigned my approach to a problem on the fly based on what he was telling me about our constraints except, y'know, i didn't so much redesign it as the new design was just *there*, like i didn't *think* about it in any perceptible way at allShow this thread2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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what if it couldn't have done the systems design if it had been paying attention to the interaction because it had been busy fantasizing during all the systems design i consciously did in the past that's dissociation
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I would just call that 'distraction', dissociation is something else again
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it isn't the point is at the interconnects neural subsystems are oriented inward, toward inhibiting input — because input has hurt too much — instead of cooperating
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there is a lot of stuff going on in different parts of your brain all the time, in subsystems that came factory installed and subsystems that assembled themselves for particular purposes later these subsystems communicate with each other to a greater or lesser degree
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this degree is changeable, and when it changes downward the mechanism is neural inhibition, which is basically like turning down the volume on a neural connection like turning down the volume on a radio dissociation involves subsystems becoming more isolated
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generally because non-isolation is intolerable integrative changes move in the other direction a repetitive noise from outside interrupting your attention is the kind of thing i would call "distraction"; subsystems just doing their own thing isn't that
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