tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post6337194304227352837..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Revisiting the Bicameral MindAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-33486503646721956902014-05-24T21:09:53.002-04:002014-05-24T21:09:53.002-04:00Why would anyone seek a source for a conclusion. I...Why would anyone seek a source for a conclusion. If you follow the road they traveled, you should inevitably end up at a similar place. In many cases, an author's conclusion doesn't matter. It's the journey, not the destination.<br /><br />It's how 2+2=4 and it's how 1+1=10 in binary, that matters, not what the answer is because the answer doesn't really say much.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-37204822231019334452014-04-26T11:19:50.861-04:002014-04-26T11:19:50.861-04:00"I feel obliged to squelch many sorts of thin..."I feel obliged to squelch many sorts of thinking pretty quickly, actually. It’s what I do."<br /><br />AVI: Standing athwart history, yelling "Get off my lawn!"GraniteDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04851407860883846133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-80744457688891815262014-04-24T14:08:37.975-04:002014-04-24T14:08:37.975-04:00I have been a huge enthusiast of the book since it...I have been a huge enthusiast of the book since it came out. In particular, I found his ideas fruitful in reflecting upon and trying to minister to patients and families in a neuro intensive care unit. His ideas on mental illness per se aren't so hot, but the notion of physiology, accident, disease having spiritual dimensions, and of the possibility that people's experience of the Divine evolved as consciousness did was electrifying. Of course, I also liked Oliver Sacks. <br /><br />In my defense, I was Not enchanted by my distant relative R. D. Laing whom I curse daily for his contributions to homelessness and the lack of residential care nowadays for chronically mentally ill patients, desperately in need of it (and the family caregivers being destroyed under the burden)Retrieverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036341287285545932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-30817571148241721452014-04-23T20:35:59.566-04:002014-04-23T20:35:59.566-04:00psychiatry and behavioral genetics more generally ...psychiatry and behavioral genetics more generally are oblivious to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Norms_of_reaction#Misunderstanding_genetic.2Fenvironmental_interactions" rel="nofollow">reaction norms.</a><br /><br />they confuse the heritability/concordance or stability of psychological traits <i>within</i> a <i>particular</i> society with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_and_extrinsic_properties_%28philosophy%29intrinsic%20characteristics." rel="nofollow">intrinsic</a> characteristics of the individual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-49513811243970167582014-04-23T20:28:23.915-04:002014-04-23T20:28:23.915-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-90790881466836853122014-04-23T20:01:13.683-04:002014-04-23T20:01:13.683-04:00I would hardly have been interested at the time ex...<i>I would hardly have been interested at the time except that Jaynes was attributing schizophrenia to this change in all human brains over time, and I felt obliged to squelch that sort of thinking pretty quickly.</i><br /><br />you might be interested in this: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/schizophrenia-prevalence-correlated-gluten-grain-consumption-0<br /><br />in general, the problem with behavioral genetics (as "practiced") is that it is oblivious to reaction norms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norms_of_reaction#Misunderstanding_genetic.2Fenvironmental_interactions<br /><br />the very big assumption of the hbd crowd is that though the mean for the population may be shifted up or down, everyone responds <i>in the same direction</i> and <i>with the same magnitude</i> to <i>any</i> environmental change.<br /><br />but, obviously, this is exactly the response of a population of clones (MZTs) and not that of a genetically heterogeneous population.<br /><br />so the hbders have been hoist by their own petard. they are self-contradictory. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com