reading _The Master and His Emissary_ on a lowgrade high on the prologue some thoughts 1. emotional roller coaster as he alternates between sublime and cringe takes 2. why arent all of you talking about this 3. feels big. tentative on this. still getting a bead on the author
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brains, the things the thing the universe made to see itself uses to see, seeing themselves
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if i were a brain i would simply understand my own structure and function
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this book is super good observation: people dont usually think about experience and metacognitive training and development just take minds as there or not, knowledge as present or not certain models of integration work very well with his left/right framework
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specifically speaks to my understanding of statistics and the manner in which I learned it the back and forth between "model" and "intuition" in economics similarly
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he keeps putting 'takes' in scare quotes reasonable
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going to continue this thread mostly to collect questions that fall out of the framework the author proposes expect this will be extensive
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Q1. How does hemispheric specialization play out in nonhuman animals? - do eg cats have a rich but nonverbal inner life they simply dont/cant explicate for the most part - (more questions once I actually read the relevant section)
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Q2. How does contextual hemispheric preference/dominance develop? How much is raw genetics, how much fetal development, how much random environment, how much trainable; interactions thereof Implications for the effects of schooling, media environments, specific learning methods
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Q3. What's up with birds? Cephalopods? Recall gross anatomical differences, eg presence of the cortical song nucleus HVC used in vocal learning in passerine songbirds is not present in mammals Hm. Is HVC bilateral? And something about neurons being tiny/efficient in birds
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Q4: development of a general psychology of mammalian life (bonus for all chordates) not a question I don't care
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Q5: Lucas critique but for psychology will elaborate later but it you get it, great
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Q6: two classes of bicameral mind religions exist they differ on whether god is the left hemisphere or the right
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