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@Malcolm_Ocean And there are three doors that purify you of this sin... https://t.co/UlzXURnO7q
@Malcolm_Ocean Here's an interesting take along those lines: https://t.co/xEvfeHHEqT
@Malcolm_Ocean original sin is metaphysical capture by authoritarians https://t.co/QUL4TpStoc
@slimepriestess my model (as of reading the Snake Cult article) is that the original event referred to by "original sin" is the shift to dualism/separation but then "original sin" as a framing with all of its implications emerged afterwards as memetically fit way to control people by fake reward
@slimepriestess (this this model) the psy-op has a grain of truth, in that there really was a moment when we fell out of heaven, experientially but then the idea that this other guy gets to tell you what to do & if you do what he says you'll get let back into heaven? 🧐 https://t.co/7Hd2dPREcl
@Malcolm_Ocean my model is that the separation between a human mind and eg, a dolphin or a deer is one of relatively few degrees, and even after the beginnings of language, it took most of human history to secret-of-our-success memetically assemble enough language to start a meaning cascade.
@Malcolm_Ocean And under this model the cascade outward from recursion in language and thought would tip the balance of the native "mind triune" into a state where the left hemisphere became dominant in most humans, to the point of unbalancing the decision-making process into the "superego"
@slimepriestess haha so in your model it's sorta like - LH cortex etc = analytic - RH cortex etc = creative - hindbrain+limbic = id ? https://t.co/PdYkv1xWtu
@slimepriestess it seems to me like the RH and LH each handle different dimensions of navigating social expectations, but the ones that allow commands or rules are largely LH-based (RH handles vibe stuff, dancing, physical coordination on a task by anticipating others' moves)
@Malcolm_Ocean BH generates and is the phenomenal universe RH generates counterfactual simulations, eg: different time slices, possible scenarios, creativity, inner eye, etc LH analyzes the other two, generating an abstract platonic model that allows long range pathfinding
@slimepriestess what is BH? also I think McGilchrist would be pretty insistent that the LH/RH have their own phenomenal universes that are based on the different ways of attending to the world they embody https://t.co/OeBkaTBzhy
Intro thread to Iain McGilchrist's work, based on his mini-book Ways of Attending: How our divided brain constructs the world. "Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience." https://t.co/eys00Sn2vl
@Malcolm_Ocean Yeah pretty much, but of note is that in the "runtime environment" of the mind, they would be like separate virtual machines with their own internal workspaces, and the same programs could be run on all three partitions.