On the VeRantda

“You are a product of your environment (despite what Descartes told you)

revolutionaryth0t 27 Mar 2024”

Weird to have cartesian coords then, tbh. I loved the idea of — oh.
No, I just completely mixed them up, somehow.
Cartesian Coordinates (x, y, z, fuck knows, oh no, gets the mathemeticians in here, we need indices, I'm afraid) am'st not Radial or Polar Coordinates (r, angle whether degrees or radians).
That explains why “this therefore that [and never shall we consider the phrasing of the question or who gets to ask it]” guy would love the unreality of absolute (anti-Einstein) axes.

2:20
yup. “Anyone can be made mentally ill in a stressful enough environment.” YES.
That is so much more condensed than I've ever been able to phrase it. My best has been along the lines of “Everyone has an amount of stress that will be intolerable to them. At that point, they will find living their current life undesirable enough to end it. Whether they do or not is besides the point. The fact is that they will feel intense suffering beyond their limit of what they personally find unpleasant.” Nowhere near as pithy.

3:30
“Cartesian dualism [...] is not how reality functions at all.” Thank you, omg.
That crystallised part of my (physics graduate) problems with the current Scientific Method (methods). A scientific experiment is where you try to figure out how changing one parameter affects the outcome. Therefore (ideally), you test what that parameter does, at least in that system or its outcomes.

The trouble comes from ignoring context, as usual. “Add thing1 and thing2 happens, so thing1 means thing2” is fine for e.g. mixing up a new color to paint with. Then you add context of testing in a chemistry laboratory: now, mixing a blue and a red might not, in fact, make a purple. Or it might, but not visible to your eyes because of colorblindness, polarising goggles, etc.

BUT “how come thing2 if no thing1?” You figure out what thing3 might be. Is there a thing3? Need it be a pair of thing3 with thing4? Is thing3 how we set up the testing? The Dual Slit Experiment gets a lot of psuedo-science (meaning 'sounds like' science, not 'partially' science) about it, but is an interesting reminder of “things change when you touch them”. That may sound familiar from Newton's whichever law, the one about action and reaction. We perturb any system by measuring it.

At some point, you must accept that science is hard and you can't get reliable research without UBI and UBS. Universal Basic Income and Universal Basic Services don't fix everything? No, but at least they reduce the incentives to avoid reliable research.

5:00

Embodied Cognition is a good phrase to know. We are a continuous experience of others' experienced continua. “You” are what you regularly interact with, including other people. Their impressions of you impact their interactions with you, impacting your impressions of every aspect throughout that series of feedback systems.

8:20

Your body is essentially your long-term memory storage and pattern recognition. Chronic stress draws on your cells' energy stores (not just ATP but probably freaked-out mitochondria too) to survive excessive stimulation from your “fight, flight, freeze, or fawn” responses.

I got an ad around here. Dude was saying “3 reasons your speaking falls flat” and the first was “you ramble”. I'm in meta knowledge mode so let's consider that. His assertion: people don't listen to someone who rambles. If you talk about something they do not expect, 'ramble', then they will not listen. Why? They may not want to hear other topics or they may need to hear a particular topic. As for 'want' and unexpected topics, why not just listen? You'll learn what the person is like and how you may learn from them (either what to do or 'what not to do'). If not, what have you lost? Where do you feel pressure coming from to do otherwise?

10:40 ok, so we need a language that uses all phonemes available. That way, people will find language learning a little easier.

11:30 Heck, it doesn't even need to be neuroplasticity. If you adapt to your environment AT ALL (if you are alive), then you are adaptive.
“How are you gonna take in the world without sensory organs? You wouldn't. Right?” Again, though, personally: we perturb a system by measuring it. If you exist physically, then you automatically interact with the space around you, be it air, vaccuum, or whatever makes up black holes. By interacting physically with the particles, environment, or creatures around you, your cells or machine parts or thought experiment astral projection will be sensed by that environment. And since every action causes an equal and opposite reaction, you feel that recoil.
Unless that's more in a biology or life science way, then idk.

15:00 ish
Subjective idealism sounds like selfish human-centrism tbqh.

Aaaaaaargh I'll add more later.