Here are my most recent posts, most seeming to have more
relation to science than Buddhism per se:
(This present page, of course, is
also printable.): [ (To check for more recent, just click on lorlarz2.) ]
Only unique human capability?: to talk A LOT; BUT cultural achievements not withstanding, IMO individual humans uniquely communicate little.
Universities: more factories than humane, decent, open "think tanks": reward structure is too clear to see otherwise. No theory innovation.
As usual, 'homunculus' is 'alienated' from normal, natural, real phenomenon/experience: with his "mind-reading" & "time travel" (& "meta's")
optimistic?: don't believe U can't 'handle' the truth; just that U don't want to (1 shouldn't believe this is necess. better; may be worse)!
cognition "embedded"? OK: embedded in developed perception & related triggered memory: spacial, episodic, personal, declarative, procedural
added another 'answer' to
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_would_you_look_for_in_a_new_cognitive-developmental_theory ……
Shows how "far off" (& "adrift") devel. psychology is now.
#science
#psychology
#ethology
be good to have ontogeny & ontology (philosophy on 'coming to know')
understandings be the same things
#science
#philosophy
#psychology
For those frustrated by my posts not directly addressing
#Buddhism, go back to 19 Nov 2014 & read to Dec.
this year.
http://mynichecomp.com/myPosts.html
I added another 'answer' to
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_would_you_look_for_in_a_new_cognitive-developmental_theory …
Shows how "far off" (& adrift") devel. psychology is now.
#science
#psychology
#ethology
What would U look for in a new cognitive-developmental theory?:https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_would_you_look_for_in_a_new_cognitive-developmental_theory …
& see:
http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
#science
#psychology
additional gains from ethological cognitive-development theory summarized in 3 new points on bottom of http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram . Compelling.
<-- It has been (in the past) a "technological issue". That is gone
now. Onward
#science
#psychology
#ethology
#development i.e.
#ontogeny
Only *very recently* has it become possible to investigate the maj. hypotheses of the cogn.-dev. ethological theory: http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
<--ethological developmental psyc. THEORY (innate/learned) does it w/ absolutely the most empirical (grounded-in-observable) approach poss.
BEST other dev. psyc. theo. do is talk about 'learning' involved & talk about 'innate' involved & do so separately, back & forth repeatedly
Only 1 dev.
#psychology theo. credibly integrates 'innate
factors' & 'learning' so BOTH simultaneously have effect:
http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
#AI people vs.
#psychology people. Perhaps an AI person will
build a robot that's much like a person before psyc.people can know
themselves.
#Psychology people don't care that they have
extreme nature/nurture dualism or that they have central constructs
that are obviously made up.
believe any non-infant human conceptualizing doesn't SIGN. involve BOTH learning & innate factors AT the SAME TIME: U will be shown wrong
To put real pieces together, U must 1st find the real pieces; extraneous or combos. won't adeq. point the way - just reveal an unclear limit
U never want to say "it just is", even when U can reliably & meaningfully 'see' it. U still will be limited big & stuck. E.G.: No "meta-'s"!
<--True for all previous abstraction developed (i.e. all abstraction
at one time or another). W/O this understanding U R "adrift".
#ethology
When is new abstraction not considered itself abstraction? When it 1st develops & exists as overt perceptual biases. http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
Show that both basic assumptions & major constructs of
#psychology can be questioned BIG:
http://tiny.cc/learnedinnate
&
http://tiny.cc/metaexec
<-- If you need what is really the major issue stated more starkly,
see:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Have_you_realized_and_appreciated_the_likely_problematic_nature_of_the_continued_extreme_dualism_of_learning_and_innate_factors …
#ethology
#science
#psychology
Putting a lot of stuff together: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are_the_concepts_of_metacognition_and_executive_processes_good_and_are_they_necessary_at_all … <- Tired of: dualism?, of made-up constructs based on ad hoc models? Check this out
IF have accurately & well shown a rational, realistic core in
#Buddhism, why not examine
#psychology
#science view?:
http://mynichecomp.com
have culled
#Buddhism for rational/realistic & thus perhaps
indicate some of the development of my
#science thought:
http://mynichecomp.com
Asking & answering 'basic' questions from UR several "points of view" doesn't necess. result in good understanding (eg Rel. Dev. Sys. Theo.)
Asking & answering many 'basic' questions, doesn't necess. lead to the asking & answering of big ones (e.g. Skinner) http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
better assessm of animal's knowl/representation/memory/experience allows OTHER than 'learning' OR artificial constructs as alt. explanations
Special capacity "to know what 1 'thinks'/'knows'": posited so homoculus gets busy doing "more 'thinking'" - anyone's convenient guess what!
nonhumans exhibit info-seeking responses in situations w/ which they have NO prior experience & when ignorant & 'see' it in OTHERS - Rosati
<-aspects of representation & memory: no need for separate concepts
like 'meta-cognition' & 'exec. processes'
#science
#ethology
#psychology
1 test of theory: indicates how behavior (aspect of organism's biology) likely relates to basic biological principles/laws, e.g. homeostatis
Science of real empiricist: there's nothing "abstract" in way often imagined - ALL skills R developed with/via key overt behavioral aspects.
<-We cannot content ourselves with suggestions or qualitative indications of ape psyc. relationships - w/o boldness that could go on forever
Not many [other] apes, nor people studying them; time for a strong theory (w/ clear strong hypotheses), NOW: URGENT. http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
If U torture an animal, some ability may drop out; this doesn't mean U eliminated the cause because U also caused interference. Think it out
Cruelty diminishes U/us; & it's unnecessary; there is plenty most important discoveries to make w/o engaging in cruelty to sentient beings.
Make
#science 'spiritual' OR no excuse when U show
less-than-your best:
#humanist
#realist
#empiricist good
#atheist; finding max. awareness
10 yr ago, the usage of the word 'ethology' fell out of favor, for
vaguer terms ('evol. cognition'); save
#ethology
http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
can stop speaking about core personal ('spiritual') philosophies but
U can't rightfully have speech not clearly guided by/based in
#science
have spoken
#Buddhism; presented Buddhism; no longer speak
Buddhism per se- take this as an e.g.
http://mynichecomp.com
#ethology
#science
have studied
#Buddhism; I know Buddhism; no longer study
Buddhism per se- take this as an example
http://mynichecomp.com
#ethology
#science
empiricism: no abstract or symbolic representation (or image) that didn't have related innate guiding accompaniments during its development
empiricism: there is no abstract/symbolic representation (or image) that never had related behavioral accompaniments during its development.
It isn't just standing fully w/ science BUT where all can be seen as
"fodder" in
#science -- knowing HOW to do so!:
#ethology & see my site.
Rational, realistic
#Buddhism:
http://mynichecomp.com .
Rational, realistic developmental
#psychology/#science:
http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
Try.
Main interest: patterns in social behavior of apes which seem to fully match core patterns of perceptual biases behind human cognitive dev.
#Buddhism site,
http://mynichecomp.com
NEW ADDITIONS can be seen via
http://mynichecomp.com/newAdditions.doc …
OR
http://mynichecomp.com/newAdditions.pdf …
(incl. in new zips)
<-I.E. Major things
#psychology says 'we can do' & 'other apes cannot'
R MADE-UP from "thin air" for US w/ no reasonable basis, not
#science
'Meta-cognition' & 'exec. processes', out of "thin air" as needed: ridiculous, not legitimate concepts (no reasonable development specified)
If view of learning isn't clearly related to greater organismic/adaptive process: must be incorrect w/r to principle http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
start over, go further: when it may simplify &/or better connect/integrate knowledge, & elaborate principles (as appropriate) & nothing lost
If U cannot see
#Buddhism clearly as existentialism, U have no
understanding of it (like all my profs!) & too little personal
responsibility
Clear, well-founded, simple truth is so scary (because of the responsibility it requires) that people _knowingly_ choose 'magic' & delusion.
Care & communication
#science essence: spec.: inter-rater reliability &
validity. This simple outlook, all personal & science boils down to.
good news is that we can BEGIN AGAIN as often as necessary! -- THAT
is THE saving "grace":
#science
#psychology
#Buddhism
#ethology See site
<-all simply from the clear implications of the 7 + or - 2 rule of
short-term memory & deliberate working memory PERIOD
#science
#psychology
If U don't have it correctly, U must basically BEGIN AGAIN: human
developmental
#psychology,
#science &
#Buddhism:
http://mynichecomp.com
Behavior is biological, of course: U must see it that way from the start. The beginning perspective on development: http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
U have to start correctly & organized (& valid) & then remain that way at ea. step of the development of knowledge OR U shall not have it.
systematically categorize concepts, via correct definitions of
abstraction & know when to switch from 1 def. to another: most of
#AI success
Though U may use only 10% of your brain at 1 time/place, U use all of it cross-environment; very similarly behavior is "out there" in life
'unconscious' seems to be invariably best conceptualized as "very-difficult"-to-recall preconscious features of experience ("out there" too)
What seems "inner"/"deep"/"within us" more empirically & satisfactorily conceptualized as out-in-the-world behavior along w/ everything else
We never imagine or think about things that are not existent: i.e. we think in terms of some of their concrete aspects even if in new combos
abstractions aren't simply learned OR taught, YET require nothing more (other) than emerging innate perceptual biases in an adaptive context
Abstraction: that which involves 'seeing' systematic imagings of aspects(parts) of different things/events, not present at same place & time
need an 'ecology' of term use (act. an ETHOLOGY for/of term use). Otherwise we use words poorly (& even use goofy words: eg: 'inner' 'deep')
<-- ... I do try to show what real abstractions are: http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram . See that & thereby speak usefully about them (vs haphazard).
An association, even between an arbitrary symbol & an object is NOT itself an 'abstraction'; it's an association, given that extent of usage
If we don't come to love our fellow apes, doubt we'll have the understanding or good to save ourselves. Greed; & evil of dominion continues.
"Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care can we help. Only if we help will they be saved."J. Goodall. Doable, knowing us as apes
To see ourselves as apes, we must do paring down to basic essentials (realities), to what's behind human cogn. dev.: http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
Behavior, surely as any organ, a somewhat independent aspect (BUT an aspect) OF BIOLOGY?: Respond accordingly & if not in UR thinking START!
When we think (incl. when we 'conceive') must start simple (7 +or- 2) & go from there -- really will anyway. Recognize this or be delusional
basic nature of cognition (research-able), as meaningfully analogous to patterns shown in ape social understanding: http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
takes care of very clear problems in all major theoretical perspectives on human behavior & it seeks to be a base: http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
Only basic outline of key human behavior that explicitly aims to see basic cognition obeying principles of biology: http://tiny.cc/humanEthogram
#AI people may realize likely essentials of human
concept [& memory & thought] development before behav. scientists!
http://mynichecomp.com
There will always be many bad definitions & much confusion until a
field is properly grounded.
https://mynichecomp.com/index.php?subject=13 …
#psychology
#ethology
<-- ... on site have already spelled-out the majors kinds of human abstraction; if only someone had the initiative without having to be told
Maybe when human researchers can discern 'thinking' from knowing, they will also be able to come up w/ decent human meanings for 'abstract'!