Steve Patterson Name and picture from twetch — not on-chain. The signature is; the profile is not.

The mental is more tangible than the physical.

The most concrete thing you've ever experienced is your own experience.

Has anybody written about how myths might affect our biology - e.g. telling the same stories for thousands of years changes our brain structure (and makes us more primed to understand the world through that particular mythological lens)?

The human mind has never conceived of an actualized continuum.

In practice, we only think of finite things that are later spoken about as if they are continuous.

Finitism is good enough for all our minds and all our computers.

Some part of death anxiety is caused by unexpressed love.

There is more for you to do - and it's urgently important - if your love is bottled up.

The internet will do to the academy what the printing press did to the Catholic church.

The intrinsic order of the universe is a good candidate for the term "divine" - immortal, transcendent, omnipresent, all-powerful.

"High-IQ" patterns of reasoning are generally terrible due to tracking fewer variables than "common sense" heuristics.

High-IQ methods are overly abstract, and the abstraction processes destroys critical information, though it allows you to do (bad) math.

Just learned that academics have considered "the hot hand" an illusory cognitive bias for 30 years.

Turns out, their math was wrong, and there is indeed a hot hand.

It's hard to imagine being that stupid, throwing out obvious truths in favor of bad math

The Big Dipper. Ghosts in the graveyard. The story of Harry Potter.

Are there patterns in the world, or merely in the mind? Does the mind recognize or create patterns?

The easy answer would be either/or. Unfortunately, I think it's all of the above. Patterns are in the world and in the mind, both created and recognized.

Experience presents itself without theory.

But as soon as you interpret or try to understand the experience, you're in the domain of theory.

I've been in discussion with them about the big reveal. I told them it was the last interview I'd ever give... but then decided against it. Lawyers soon.

Managed and accelerated decline is my current best explanation for US policy.

Either that, or mass physical illness destroying the minds of Americans.

When the state gets involved in the academy, intellectual errors end up becoming political scandals, challenging the credibility and competence of the ruling powers.

I can think of few worse domains for state intervention than public health. See: Fauci.

Most beliefs are held for social reasons, which is why they are not revised when met with superior arguments.

"His claim that 'circles don't exist' is a well-known dog whistle."

Early reports suggest Steve Patterson agrees.

Fake experts are the new fake news.

Mind and body are fundamentally distinct, yet share two-way causal relations.

Denying the mind is self-contradictory

Denying the body is empirically falsified from experience

Both exist, but neither are fundamental. The universal function generates all!

Riffing off the Christianity idea: the Mind of God can be embodied in a human; but it requires a body to do so!

The mind requires a body, and the human body requires the external universe.

Neither our bodies or minds can perpetuate their own existence.

Mind over matter, when matter permits it.

The people who look at the left half of a bell curve and shout “It’s exponential!” reside in the left half of the bell curve.

15 countries have now suspended administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine, including Germany and France this morning.

https://apnews.com/article/business-europe-germany-coronavirus-pandemic-0ab2c4fe13370c96c873e896387eb92f

I’m not sure about the collective unconscious, but the individual unconscious definitely exists and has more information, intelligence, and wisdom than you.

I think it loves you, too.