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I'm currently undermining aspects of Darwin's theories on the origins of man, and language, because of an interest in female bear penises.https://t.co/3h0uHaA3mq
Let me tell you a story about shape shifting dinosaurs & systems of prestige + categorizations neuter explorations of truth: https://t.co/icQ16KIbrZ
A more real world example of this effect happening due to networks - consider Mary Anning's story https://t.co/ywhENYHI2U and how her discoveries https://t.co/qLWWXciZ4S filtered up thru into Charles Darwin's theories of evolution. https://t.co/LcIjjPqFVL
Studying Darwin's early childhood and collegiate career, you quickly see how Museums influenced his early habits of collecting and identifying species of plants. A cultural interest in fossils and working in museums influenced how he was able to reach conclusions that he made.
The other half of the story can be seen in how his ideas on sexual selection and language development are based on hunches stemming from his experiences with his wife.https://t.co/Y3oTyucOvU
Words evolved as a sexual selection ritual? Nah.https://t.co/6ZN4STworW
if we want to improve the situation, we have to have a more accurate view of the phenomena and not this stupid myth of an idea that is little more than a long winded version of collective unconscious bullshit psychology Kuhn tried to ram into sociological explanations of science.
In the mean time, that prestige thing seems like forced scarcity. If it really is a network, why are we imposing centralized hierarchy based prestige systems? This doesn't strike me as useful for a flourishing scientific system in the digital age.
So I'm reading research on bear shit and bear dicks and bacterial influences on gender and plants. Undermining popular notions of gender in the process. Because fuck the patriarchy or something.https://t.co/CXTEnIRNYE
Because I'm rejecting a sort of cultural hegemony that has creeped in around these systems of prestige among high level scientific thought.https://t.co/SeZfSTXiJa
Another way to say: fuck that noise.https://t.co/gVsFZ10gKz
Everybody's like "oh look at me I'm doing the Feynman method".Oh, rly? Me too! Why I'm researching bears shittin plant bacteria to study how a circadian rhythm works...https://t.co/Y9qB31NC79
Current status: reading research on how plant bacterial process nitrogen's in the soil and turn them into proteins. Doing this as a proxy for trying to figure out what kind of soil bacteria bears might be eating in the fall via roots.
I suspect the feedback loops in their gut related to urea => protein synthesis is also simultaneously driving with feedback loop that allows them to sleep for so long.Circadian rhythm is partly controlled by adipose tissue and as such has strong metabolic factors. Hibernate?
So in the end, the underlying assumption I have: that gender itself is really a game theoretic process about metabolic costs feeding into and risk/reward dynamics of groups of animals. All of it feeding into genetic and microbial adaptions.TL;DR:https://t.co/NXKbSsXaGW
So when I read titles like"Abnormal Sexual Differentiation in Black Bears (Ursus americanus) and Brown Bears (Ursus arctos)" https://t.co/F6ALvZlr5jAll I can think is "your hetronormative bias is showing, lulz"
And remember that even Darwin struggled with ants.https://t.co/DZMrnF75Kp
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” https://t.co/2GbiLZJBNn
Squint enough at memetics and mimetics, and after a while you see that they same basic forces being described by two different silos of thought. Or perhaps, two competing cultures.https://t.co/vAi5hm6C07
Memetics ought be a strong foundational theories by which we describe how Habitus evolves & how societies react to forces in the environment. But of course thats not going to happen. They're locked behind two dueling silos of prestige, policing each other endlessly. Ivory towers.
A body of memes that influence how you act, evolving thru cultural transmission, what's that? As I see it, these are the underlying systems that lead to the concepts of Cultural Hegemony. Its the same fucking thing.https://t.co/YP6cSLYGrE
My current obsession: Steelmaning social constructionism using gametheoretic models of risk/reward systems. Trying to merge it w/ evo-psych and the emerging understanding of gene/culture feedback loops.https://t.co/Os40FGZfpK
Exploring epigenetics as vertical transfer of microbiome + other forms of contagion when splayed against food norms. How cultural ritual + memetics (mimesis) adapt to resource density & environment.https://t.co/ES3IZ5SsSI
Smash the lexical boundaries that reinforce linguistic silos.https://t.co/PhsQXT7iCt
Call things by which they are not.Bridge the gap of inferential distance.Make rope bridges and ladders on the ivory towers.Turn the world into your playground.https://t.co/w9qOw0wQSt
Exhume history. Consume history. Recapitulate. Let them eat cake.Navigating maps of meaning, cybernetics to change the heading.Exploring the future with an eye on the past. Adjust. Adjust.Expanding meta narrative templates forever in a loop.METAtics.https://t.co/5NDXTEa8i7
If science advances one funeral at a time...We can advance it faster by cannibalizing ideas before they've expired?https://t.co/YvE8iNNPEg
And perhaps expire some ideas entirely.https://t.co/ceIirqI9lY
Missing the forest for the trees.https://t.co/m03twABa8I
So in the end, the underlying assumption I have: that gender itself is really a game theoretic process about metabolic costs feeding into and risk/reward dynamics of groups of animals. All of it feeding into genetic and microbial adaptions.TL;DR:https://t.co/2cS2Bhcb3t
There's a breed of turtles who breath thru their butt in low oxygen environments.There's a breed of turtles who pee thru their mouth in high salt environments.There's prob something out there that breaths thru eyeballs. 👏Nature👏don't👏give👏a👏fuck👏https://t.co/L7gyfacOAK
Just ordered a light therapy lamp:https://t.co/8ZzOXemQhIand blue light blocking glasses:https://t.co/OShd1vAhupNot much evidence it helps with S.A.D. but seem it might help with general depression, and could help me with Hypernychthemeria.Been saving up for a few months.
I'm operating under a suspicion that Melatonin / light response is mediated by gut microbes via a response ala: https://t.co/8NLpQ7OJmy and possibly a strange socially mediated / immune interaction with insulin/serotonin ala https://t.co/wPkdvHmZKfAnd that humans can hibernate.
Hypothesis: reason we can smell chocolaty oil and swimming pools really well is that chocolate is derived from lactic acid producing bacteria and we are ureotelic - We're using scent not to hunt, but to monitor where other humans live? See also scent driven Westermarck effect.
I'm thinking about pissing in jugs to grow mass amounts of algea in the local mosquito puddles. This will grow more mosquitoes. Which will attract an influx of dragonflies which will bottom out the population. https://t.co/mMAVbTVl5T
I gotta get ahold of this bacteria first: https://t.co/2njo4SOYv0
After the population bottoms out, I can use this bacteria to prevent them from re-growing.https://t.co/yOftmM4Whf
All the extra algea from the urea might attract more frogs. Which will eat the dragonflies. Tl;DR: there might be a resurgence of Belostomatidae. This will make people want to build fewer water features in their backyard. Problem solved.https://t.co/9i89VTUrOt
Is it against the law to dump urine in random puddles?Maybe.https://t.co/oNAiqDiGvh
Hmm. Instead I should change my skin microbes?"After completing such a study with Anopheles gambiae, we would then need to test other mosquitoes. You might be surprised to learn that there are no fewer than three thousand species of mosquitoes on Earth"https://t.co/zK851654CV
Rob Rhinehart got nothing on me. I already figured out how to do this without abusing medicine - Just working on the details."They also don't recommend abusing medicine so you stop shitting."https://t.co/KRPE6PSYTYhttps://t.co/503o4Opuf9
Funny that Bill Gates released a bunch of mosquitoes into a ted talk and it became famous. But some autistic kid in vermont saving up jugs of urine to dump in the local stagnant water would prob just get me thrown in jail. Both strike me as socially repugnant behavior.
Tired: Making the frogs gay by manipulating their bacterial envirionmentWired: Making the mosquitoes gay by manipulating their bacterial environmenthttps://t.co/3MHbFgrw06
Oh, I forgot to talk about why I'm adding this talk about mosquitoes. I found out that we can fuck with mosquitoes by messing with their melatonin signaling. https://t.co/YQ5zVQNm7s which might be acting via the same mechanisms I noted here: https://t.co/3WfDgW2TT7
I'm operating under a suspicion that Melatonin / light response is mediated by gut microbes via a response ala: https://t.co/8NLpQ7OJmy and possibly a strange socially mediated / immune interaction with insulin/serotonin ala https://t.co/wPkdvHmZKfAnd that humans can hibernate.
No comment...https://t.co/zD0swiMMCZ
I'm really just mad that humming birds in the backyard come to feed at same time that the mosquitoes start to bite. I also realized they are very sensitive to sunlight, atmospheric pressure, and humidity. Got me thinking that it might be happening in bees. https://t.co/RNenZRlskg
OK GOOGLE, HOW DO I BUY MEDICAL GRADE MOSQUITOES ON AMAZON.https://t.co/whIlOWCF7L
I bet if I search for Crispr mosquitoes a bit, Google's ad system will tell me the answer of where to by medical grade mosquitoes.https://t.co/LMuczwiXDU
Oh hey, I already have a solution to getting a supply of blood to feed mosquitoes. Thanks internet!https://t.co/otMYaRYOz6
"The physiological pattern of the sleep-wake cycle is influenced by external synchronizing agents such as light and social patterns" hmmmmmm https://t.co/DsixBAloXE https://t.co/lcvBjIzPwE
I'm operating under a suspicion that Melatonin / light response is mediated by gut microbes via a response ala: https://t.co/8NLpQ7OJmy and possibly a strange socially mediated / immune interaction with insulin/serotonin ala https://t.co/wPkdvHmZKfAnd that humans can hibernate.
Searching 3 different ideas and I keep getting this thread as a strange attractor.This seems to belong here, but I don't know why.Words fail me.Recapitulating social phoenixes and historical memeplexes storied on the brain. Ideas time has forgotten, lost. A song in round. https://t.co/xJVUL8wwT5
"Taken together, these models add up to a broad view that gender egalitarianism was not just part of the package but a fundamental aspect of what made us modern humans."https://t.co/DycXQJRfx4
If humans can hibernate, you'd think it'd be embedded in our oral history; acting as instructions. Stories about lotus flowers, sirens, fae feeding parasite ridden food that makes you sleep. Goblins like Midgna who use sleep as a weapon. Sleeping Beauty bewitched by fae adjacent.
Heh. Hibernating thru winter? yeah."the wicked fairy godmother is winter, who puts the Court to sleep with pricks of frost until the prince (spring) cuts away the brambles with his sword (a sunbeam) to allow the Sun to awaken sleeping princess (nature)."https://t.co/rwF1L8oqFd
One of the survival channels I'm following on YouTube recently released a video on tracking down bears and eating their shit to get extra calories.https://t.co/cvC0qTZqkU
In the YouTube video: "if you taste it, you know if it's a male or a female bear"... cc @The_Lagrangian @literalbananahttps://t.co/cHvcF6UgDw
I lived in the woods for a few months as a child while my family went homeless.Things are aligning quite nicely.https://t.co/NlxquR7HLo
Is it legal to sell freshly harvested bear poop? I mean... Coffee is just a kind of cherry right? If you can sell coffee fermented via civet GI tract, imagine the premium i could get harvesting bear shit.https://t.co/d0ZhcX9Kho
Cody's lab has a video where he uses cherries to dissolve gold. I wonder if he's interested in making some interesting coffee.https://t.co/lfu0LgcVSV
Brands of coffee might include: brown, grizzly, and polar, and perhaps sloth.I bet I could sell this specialty coffee at the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.https://t.co/KF4fOcvw5k
The joke here is that he was really just eating blueberries mixed with some homemade pemmican. https://t.co/xQOOSuml9H
Did you know that there is a very very small chance that an infertile mule can still have a child using female only dna transfer? https://t.co/H1gzYQZicN
Now... what if the whole mitochondria dna thing where occasionally it's the male copy... happens?https://t.co/4GrgNUGiJM
Genes are a mindfuck.https://t.co/KD6lYUGH1L
Oh wait. "genetic analysis of the gynandromorphs also discovered that one bee had 4 parents (three fathers and a mother) [...] This is the first report of a phenomena of a bee with two fathers and no mother in hymenoptera"https://t.co/MR9JTLQsfg
Right now there are bits of viral dna floating around in the air waiting to glom with another virus, infiltrate your body and infect your cells.Some virus have their own immune system bits.https://t.co/MsHLBQ89zeSome virus infect other virus.https://t.co/upNqziuNdj
Virus, just falling from the sky.https://t.co/pYuXKlpwnOWe're making tools that take samples from the air to see what we're coming in contact with.https://t.co/j3cUDWgKoAViruses, just fucking shit up because they can.https://t.co/1LvMtOjPLr
Vibrant Matter."Thus, we can argue, that for DNA based organisms, the introduction of infective collectives of RNA groups are a central driving force of evolution."https://t.co/gmNe2tspb3
"Psychological Hibernation"🐻https://t.co/dxoGzJg008
How strange, who could have guessed."The microbiome is required for sexual dimorphism in gene expression and metabolism [...] Microbiota-derived metabolites and ghrelin likely drive these alterations"https://t.co/kIW1tBSOJMhttps://t.co/RYza7nDUHl
So... yeah.https://t.co/STp0xJgUoy
@Leon_Vandenberg @GMDxCo Ghrelin is interesting. I think H Pylori is doing weird things I can only describe as pushing the 'meta-Lamarckian' buttons in the immune system.https://t.co/CYRWJCH15Rhttps://t.co/uA9vavrmwMhttps://t.co/yPPjYACuOThttps://t.co/QPxA1hhSFX(h pylori -> stomach cancer.)
Filling my brain up with odd connections between ideas, and then pruning away the ones that don't hold up to scrutiny.https://t.co/7QT1qTB90f
Insulin regulation genes => Metformin => longevity 1) intermittent fasting => longevity (note: BDNF) https://t.co/KoBfP82ogi2) Fasting => improves Diabetes type II https://t.co/wQ1sST4pbm3) metformin + Type II => BDNFhttps://t.co/IByPYc8iV1https://t.co/xMKN8fXL3L
I wonder how many of the drugs we test are differently metabolized due to differing gut microbiome ecosystems. How many drugs have we just tossed away into the bin because of indeterminate effect sizes and other oddness? How many drugs are subject to other drug's impact on gut?
How many drugs were tested on mice, but didn't work because it was metabolized by their gut before it could enter their bloodstream?https://t.co/RxUUCoCwRF
its a cold adaptation. human hibernation next?https://t.co/DAXOal582X
Ah yes the **checks notes** four genders.https://t.co/V1ZN0ZHnf3
"have effectively four sexes, from their chromosomes to their reproductive behavior. It’s a striking finding that testifies to the power of using long-term field data to put genomics in the context of organismal biology."https://t.co/3ZpV6zrsrthttps://t.co/m03twABa8I
(found via someone who followed me on https://t.co/pvfP6oVwFv upon them adding one of my channels into their exploration of co-operation https://t.co/QXkcKl3hmb )
I like this model. It matches my own.https://t.co/6U4Qan8r5U
Wonder weirdly, not too much, mostly sloth butts.https://t.co/nLpoJweK2y
What am I doing with my life? Meme'ing people into helping me in harvesting bear poop.https://t.co/Hx8aHqKZzu
That darwin, pretty cool guy. Had some neat ideas. Most of them wrong, but in new and interesting ways! Ain't afraid of nothing.https://t.co/l3srFYapU4
To really get to the core of western science's framing of the world, you have to question the origin of many of our social mores and taboos. These manifest themselves in what we are 'allowed' to research. I see two major ones: sex/gender, and cannibalism. https://t.co/TOqmbt6WKp
It's a... Violent Pornography."The chorus is repeating itself like a Nabisco advertising. This is to show how advertising is brainwashing people."https://t.co/cBfwU3ilwdhttps://t.co/RgZKW6y8SA
We rethought serotonin signaling once. From "turning mice gay" to "this is just aggression & dominance behavior playing out". Just take it a step further."more mice will [be tortured] before scientists figure out exactly what role serotonin plays." https://t.co/fRh9F4Jq6t
Linguistic Intertextuality. Lewd'n up brains by encoding ideas ala relating ideas."They've got the Discovery Channel, don't they?We ain't nothin' but mammals—well, some of us, cannibalsWho cut other people open like cantaloupes"https://t.co/j1otXcEu0Vhttps://t.co/K4kMfN23I3
NeuroLudeology. The study of mind games."Game studies, or ludology, is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them."Metagaming by meme'ing about games played at the level of culture.https://t.co/lddVolJr0H
Stand back. I'm̶ D̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶s̶c̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ Perpetuating the heteropartriacy by way of embedding culture in the way we frame knowledge.Self-edifying constructs of divine bullshit. Jumping out of the system. https://t.co/oOFCESwQiL
JOOTSing myself with "bad" memes.JUICEing myself with "bad" memes.What if that's good? https://t.co/lbXbyHXVAj
Identifying boundaries of well tempered impostor syndrome vs valid self-criticism.Doubting oneself because of rationality, vs doubting oneself because of the systematic patriarchy.Gas-lighting: you think you're dumb. A system screaming at you about how you've no brain. https://t.co/3wU0VqFz8a
Poor Dorthy, we're not in Kansas - and by Kansas I mean your comfortable version of black-and-white faux-reality your social group uses to hide themselves of the wicked witchers of the world. https://t.co/kPTVJsDCEQ
To see the world from behind the veil.https://t.co/mi6yHnaask
Splashing around in the kiddie pool.https://t.co/5tZfvlNQh8
Pissing myself with laughter as I watch the adults trying to prevent their narrative sand castles from collapsing in the oncoming storm.https://t.co/onIurRhZbU
“Ah you think sand is your ally?You merely adopted the sand.I was born in it, molded by it.I didn't see the rock until I was already a man,by then it was nothing to me but rigid!”🐜🦞🦀https://t.co/0hYPyNHMwh
Laughing so hard I am parched.https://t.co/pka9dFyEUq
Drowning in my tears. 😂https://t.co/XeGBr3KoqIhttps://t.co/RBqeKof5wwhttps://t.co/Cja0ku2lIUhttps://t.co/GBfkuaecOV
I need to figure out how to store mice poop microbes for long enough to be able to get meaningful bacterial samples out of them. https://t.co/IobEzdo8CJ
I think I figured out human hibernation, but I need to see if I can induce it in mice first (without torturing them).Let's just say: TH17 and impact on neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration at intersection of immune system & diet is very interesting.https://t.co/U3LiQZsmkr
Tired: Descent with modification.Wired: Descent with cross pollination."indicated that horizontal gene transfer is more common than we expected in the human genome. This study provided insight into potential mechanisms of HGT in the human genome."https://t.co/VfUrNxT52v
Inspired: viruses are just proto-spermatozoa.Hired: Gametes as safely controlled mutual parasitic infection to defend against entropic decay.https://t.co/9gd8eMzip0
What is life? What does it mean to speciate?What would it take to cut off my arm and grow a new human like the starfish can?https://t.co/yB3XrhkXU0
What even are plants anyway?https://t.co/FNKWb25SFD
Proto-gamete idea keeps popping up in my head.I don't even remember writing this: https://t.co/aFUPrdxapr
Been thinking about viruses as a sort of proto-gamete mechanism as a surrogate for genetic mutation/sexual differentiation off offspring. My thinking is that it would happen less often during binary fission. I should dig into how bacteria actually evolve on a mechanical level. https://t.co/g2MR7037bO
“Huxley was on to something back then, but his ideas have largely been ignored for a lack of understanding [...] this new research places affection between members of a pair, and mate fidelity, on a strong evolutionary footing.”https://t.co/IypdlgVEEP
Been watching birds do bird things outside windows.Been wondering about pair bonding in crows & sparrows.Been waiting for someone to show that there are multiple successful strategies in mate choice.Been hoping someone would show (some) crows are poly.https://t.co/eehZbyicrw
"This is all much more complicated than the standard story of sperm meets egg, yet the result is still a healthy child. “It goes against so many of the rules of biology you’ve memorized in school,”https://t.co/FdtZ37sBUc
I wonder how many people have two fathers. XYY but nothing is wrong?Technically speaking, if you're female, there's a good chance some of your genes came from your dad's mom. So you have two moms in a way.But this violates the narrative.https://t.co/cnAeU1L4Si
Oh wait. "genetic analysis of the gynandromorphs also discovered that one bee had 4 parents (three fathers and a mother) [...] This is the first report of a phenomena of a bee with two fathers and no mother in hymenoptera"https://t.co/MR9JTLQsfg