(General method for dealing with people who announce they're super-concerned about abstract things that do not directly affect them -- hwhite genocide ed.):https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1011303772184809472 …
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1/Hmm - it depends. I personally have no internal monologue, but can "invoke" one if necessary, so I may have an odd perspective, but I tend to think the concept of "what someone is _really_ thinking" itself rests on the flawed premise that there is one true, coherent picture
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2/of what someone is thinking --- the q makes sense in, say, a strategy game or similar, where there are defined rules such that you might infer the strategy, but realistically people are thinking about lots of stuff, in parallel, all the time, with but a few paths getting
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3/attentional resources from PFC, etc. Nonetheless, I do think it's true that, for anxiety, we have a decent (but not great) understanding that there are both unconscious processes & conscious processes at play, and the two feed into one another. (Good book on this:
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if you're ruminating on distal and abstract concerns, what is the cause of that? is that actually knowable? how would you discover it if it can be discovered?
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It depends. I'd periodically encountered existential crises, and come out a "new man" - one could say the "rumination" was the product of my old sense of self-identity losing coherence in the face of new data; or one could look at a biophysical level, etc. It's complicated!
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have you read Seveneves (Stephenson 2015)? specifically the third and final section with the Moirans?
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Nope! Quite like Stephenson but not even caught up to the level of Reamde. Damn him and his low-internet use, high-productivity lifestyle!
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Reamde is terrible ignore it and burn any copies you own. Seveneves is good imo but he has not topped his career-best Anathem yet. anyway, so Moirans are a human descendant subspecies with insanely overactive epigenetics such that trauma triggers epigenetic reconfiguration.
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each life trauma will put a Moiran through what amounts to a highly compressed episode of puberty, where their body and mind are reshaped and strengthened in response. The Moiran cultural tradition is to number themselves according to how many epigenetic crises they've done.
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so 3 Dan would be recognized as fairly mature by 8 Claire would be a super-powered master.
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Oh snap he's done it again, taken the aspie "must rank everything" tendency and applied it to a messy area like emotional maturity! Sounds good! [Anathem is far and away my favorite of his, too -- that scene where Fraa Jaad shows alternate future paths is $$$$.]
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