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TFW I read this chart wrongI've accidentally recreated Plutchik's model of emotion by framing cognitive processes under Speed/accuracy tradeoff inherent to swarm decision making under space & time constraints as a palliative model of cognitive bias.https://t.co/avz8IAFZrX https://t.co/PZ9olRwM8S
Re-posting image for future me; https://t.co/dKKEDEpNJh
I should spend some time to re-draw emotions under a risk/reward fear/curiosity framework to better align my thinking under my social-informavore model.Instead of Maslow'ss hierarchy of needs. Ultimape's Hierarchy of emotions and knowlege.
"Just as parents show their children easy-to-read words (‘cat’) before hard-to-read words (‘yacht’), they talk to their children about desires and emotions before they discuss thornier matters of belief and knowledge."https://t.co/tDTnqq3G3n
"Cognitive gadgets are agile, because they are coded in our culture-rich environments, and downloaded in the course of childhood. So if the gadgets theory is right, new technologies could stimulate rapid cultural evolution of our mental faculties." https://t.co/gmbsc4FbaC
We teach our children to bootstrap self-awareness? Selfhood, ego an artifact of social evolution? A child's mind is a beginner's mind."A system that is built up around observing intention in other's behavior? Possibly core to consciousness."https://t.co/tIvskVo8Im
If you want to potty train a child, first you must ensure they have enough body awareness to sit. and before that, they must have a sense of balance, and muscle tone to do so.Expecting a child who does not know how to sit to be able to go to the potty is a recipe for a mess.
So much of our society is a mess.We are expected to be capable of sitting, but do not differentiate physical ability from mental ability. Both must be formed for sitting to happen.Many of us need to enter the beginner's mind to undo our training.https://t.co/kKlEWbjuQJ
Many societies who don't have high rates of back pain also seem to be those who's children are taught to squat. They also seem to have different sleeping systems, shoe norms.Why do children seem to love running, but trained out of it by schools?We have the fundamentals wrong?
We throw children in zoos, force them to go there every day. And expect them to learn to regulate their emotions by learning from their peers. Doesn't matter how good of a role model you are to your children if all those good habits are destroyed every day between 7am to 4pm
Everyone loves to reference to Harlow's experiments on wire mothers, but no one goes on to read the studies he did that suggested that even these monkeys have memes and culture passed on via their peers.https://t.co/NdXsDZDtvg
"Amygdala volume linked to individual differences in mental state inference in early childhood and adulthood""mechanism behind [...] shift in the role of the amygdala in interpreting cognitive mental states [...] is unclear, but [...] a promising direction for future studies."
What I think this all means? Emotion regulation is (in part) mediated by face recognition in peers (hence amygdala playing role in fear recognition), specifically thru action on anxiety over other people. Emotional recognition and nuance grows as we age.https://t.co/AnVgNv8i6q
@vgr Anxiety wise, I think I fall into larger amygdala/autism camp. I can get very violent (defensively) when I am afraid, not like "violent crime" psychtoday article described. related: https://t.co/iVGVnihM6aI'd have to learn more about stereotypes + cultural to be more certain.
Neat to think that your brain grows in response to social network.https://t.co/tQfBUB3oiC
As it suggest brain plasticity effect may also appear in humans. This may be invalidating idea that 150 people is limit. If you dig into dunbar, its based on a notion of measuring brain size correlations and assuming size is 'set', and not plastic.https://t.co/4WA2HtSgJ1 https://t.co/2qbf3sX0eh
Or a different way to sayBirds recognize each other by song, humans thru face. So song bird's social network changes their memory for song, and human's social network changes memory thru faces.I'm faceblind, tonedeaf, and nose is always clogged. ðŸ˜
My suspicion has always been brain size adapts to social network size, not other way around. So my thinking here is Dunbar's observations are ~true, but implications from them are wrong.Hardly anyone even understands whole of Dunbar's research anyway.https://t.co/gCyupfQOrm
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that medication that helps with gaba related anxiety that acts thru synaptic plasticity on the amgydala may also increase social skills in autistic types.https://t.co/QeNGqinEgH
These ideas neatly link issues in social parts of the brain https://t.co/NzacDEotHQ and findings that seem to suggest much of autism may be due to brain plasticity issues https://t.co/LRJfrNtZ9VSo the question is, if I have chromatin issues, can I induce plasticity thru diet?
I also find all sorts of stuff on how having a big (IRL) social network means less stress and depression. But what if we've got that wrong - its that people who have high brain plasticity can reduce their negative think easier while also supporting more social parts of the brain?
It also neatly reframes this recently study https://t.co/PTjBelzpsb"Conclusion: Social network size and loneliness do not predict cognitive decline in depressed older adults."Because it means these two issues (social network = happy) isn't as connected as we normally assume.
It would be really funny if brain plasticity related to social network size seems to be mediated by insulin because that is what seems to happen in ants... oh wait.https://t.co/JCOD6MSeiU
"When they aren't able to recognize each other, [as] we've shown before, there was more aggression."https://t.co/8YArpmlfhe
https://t.co/FWwv3nWY2Mhttps://t.co/AUs64Khd2aAnyone wanna bet that ketamine has an impact on brain plasticity in the hippocampus or modulates gaba indirectly? This seems to be the same person as the ted talk:https://t.co/U9PnD8mXJD
Why gaba rang my bells:"changes in synaptic function and network activity in the hippocampus of EAE mice largely rely on IL-1β-mediated suppression of GABAergic activity, at least before the degeneration of GABAergic interneurons is established. " [2014]https://t.co/HKEv0FACKi https://t.co/6bgYbjPOTV
Ketamine treatment for Multiple Sclerosis associated fatigue, currently recruiting for a clinical trial. Fascinating.https://t.co/QZOKPCrNxi
It would seem that by focusing on my insulin and metabolic function, despite not having type 2 diabetes, has perhaps impacted a whole host of systems. Lots of interactions between insulin and MS.https://t.co/ZM2FC0APQr
Fight Fight Fight!"at variance with those of Lawlor and colleagues, who suggested [...] diabetes in itself would be an explanation [...] diagnoses could not have affected the results, because we excluded patients previously diagnosed as having diabetes."https://t.co/gt9mxcyPhY
Guns, Germs, and Steel sitting on myself. <- A reference for a tweet I can't find.I sneeze a bit."How strange, that all this may be related to the devastating infectious disease epidemics of the ancient human times."https://t.co/Tk09wb4Gy3
I found onehttps://t.co/OWbmWkEaH1
What if Dunbar's theories are off mark b/c they didn't know part of the brain that deals with social is in-fact plastic & brain measurements weren't tracked over time?What happens when you take shrooms?https://t.co/e8BjViJ0TlDoes our brain change?https://t.co/ZINfrGZQP9
TFW challenging a living legend thru the sheer power of my (literal) autism.https://t.co/7a61YDaVe1https://t.co/llFqLL0UWB
Maybe it is I whom misunderstand Dunbar's theories?School me. I'm serious. I need to hone my ideas.https://t.co/MsaRLmeW9k
Mind you, I am not critiquing Behaviorstein, I'm critiquing his monster. Cross-field studies are full of misunderstandings due to trouble seeing within them."The misunderstanding of behaviorism is unfortunately far more pervasive than it should be."https://t.co/k3qHwVz9Wr
Faces don't bother me any more. I have not taken any neruopharmacological drugs. However, I have fixed major depression thru my gut.https://t.co/HSMiJIr91g
I fixed my major depression by specifically targeting gut bacteria that would help me improve serotonin.Hmm"recently shown that 5-HT2A receptor activation by psilocybin [...] attenuates amygdala activation in response to threat-related visual stimuli"https://t.co/eMEGiBKckc
"blocks the activation of excitatory glutamate receptors of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype by binding non-competitively to the phencyclidine site in the receptor channel in humans and may have further effects of unknown clinical relevance"https://t.co/1fldvle05q
If the good lord wanted me to maintain more than 150 meaningful memories of acquaintances, he would have seen fit to allow my amygdala to become plastic in response to the number of friends I have. https://t.co/1T70aWrDtz
"In this chapter, we review distinct neural plasticity mechanisms in the amygdala and their differential effects on learning and behavior." [2020]https://t.co/D7Jjpk0NrB