Poll: What sort of species should we aim to evolve into through this period of Great Weirding and arrival into the anthropocene?
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Replying to @vgr
whatever the appropriate label is for the trans-humanism where we develop informational immune systems. I think that involves elements of robo/cyborg transhumanism, and biohacked transhumanism, and also some kind of new program of mental and spiritual training.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
I don't think we'll survive the transition to the internet era without this. we're like terminal AIDS patients at the moment.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
What if "ideologies" *are* the "informational immune systems"? In that, an ideology is mostly resistant to new information, allowing the bearer to protect themselves from the pain of being wrong... (excerpt from Peterson, 2009)pic.twitter.com/oUB1Gy1JP9
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Replying to @simpolism @vgr
an ideology is a virulent pathogen. that is also emits counter-agents to keep out competing pathogens is just a sign of how virulent it really is.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
If ideologies are a pathogen, what exactly are they infecting, and what is the normal/functional state?
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Replying to @simpolism @vgr
at risk of torturing the analogy, but lets keep going for now. they infect minds. the healthy state is a mind where there is no strong commitment to any ideology, rendering ideas on equal footing to be evaluated contextually, and weighed against evidence.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
sounds like this "healthy mind" is merely a prioritization of one particular ideology (in this case some sort of enlightenment rationality) over the others... that said, I agree that enlightenment rationality is a reasonably good sort of ideology.
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Replying to @simpolism @vgr
no. I'm making a stronger claim than "enlightenment rationality is good". a healthy mind resists ALL ideological possession, including being possessed by enlightenment rationality.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is: what if "rendering ideas on equal footing to be evaluated contextually, and weighed against evidence" is itself a "strong [ideological] commitment"? and what if that's okay/good?
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I don't want to get bogged down in semantics as to whether the stance of emptiness/receptivity counts as an ideology. I do agree that it's good though :)
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Replying to @danlistensto @simpolism and
to switch analogies again: ideologies are very yang. too much in fact. need more yin.
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