cognition is not a discrete process taking place inside your head. it isn't even a discrete process taking place inside your body. it's a web extending everywhere, with dense nodes pulling it this way and that, synchronizing and desynchronizing, making models of each other
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one thing this means is that if you need to engage in a goal-oriented interaction, think about & plan for downside risks and failure modes *well beforehand*. when you're actually going into the interaction, you should be thinking about nothing but successful interactions like it
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if you have no experience of success in the type of interaction, you should be thinking about examples of success you've witnessed. failing that, success you can vaguely imagine. this is because failure modes are themselves attractor basins in the phase space of cognition
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so if you are thinking about failure, if you are worrying about failure, you are *running failure software*, and the cognitive processes which the other party does you the honor of sharing with you will become infected with failure and lead them to facilitate your failure
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this, of course, leaves you in the position of the classic Russian mental exercise "see how long you can go without thinking of a white bear". good luck, have fun
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i think people should be free of influences. all of us, utterly free agents
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so like brains in jars being fed sense data, but without the sense data revolutionary
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Just checking why you are putting an Alt-Right ideologue up as a model to follow with no context
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because anyone who can't be a vegetarian or a painter because Hitler was deserves what they get in life
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