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Marcus Daniels
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Fri Sep 10 15:06:31 EDT 2021
How did we get started on consciousness again? The thread started with some snark about the power of GWAS associations..
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Wimberly's Conjecture: There is no correct, reductionist explanation of consciousness.
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 11:44 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <gepropella at gmail.com<mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
It's no more profound than any other multi-order composition. It's part of the work we have to do for mechanistic modeling of higher order constructs. What galls me is that we can talk about it so much without discussing the mechanisms of construction.
The details of composing from genes, through physiological structures, through interoception, to very high order attributes like "reading ability" are interesting, regardless of any profundity. But some of us need to be reminded of how the details build the narrative. Like Magic Eye pictures, the Necker cube, or the lady/vase thing, what might seem banal without the larger frame can seem profound when the discourse is enlarged ... when it all snaps into place.
On 9/10/21 10:25 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Fine, the goal is some composition of functions and it is all interdependent.
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> Sure. Of course. Why is this so profound to y’all?
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> Which takes us back to thermostats, intentionality, intensional inexistence, Sober’s epiphomenator, spandrels, and Lorenz’s law: The goal is never the function. If you build a bird that measures competing male robins in terms of “brown stick with red fluff” you eventually get an ethologist who gets that bird to attack by providing only brown sticks with red fluff.
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> https://sketchplanations.com/goodharts-law <https://sketchplanations.com/goodharts-law>
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> I can't help but wonder if there's an analog of Goodhart's law lurking, here.
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> On September 9, 2021 2:31:39 PM PDT, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> wrote:
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> Or they are reprogramming their people to be smarter!
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> (Actually, deCODE is owned by Amgen now.)
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> Selection is already occurring, so it isn't as if this is some sci-fi thing.
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> Aha! This is why Iceland has the highest per-capita fraction of published authors in the world. I had assumed it was the weather….
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> That can be screened as well with a large population-wide survey such has been done in the UK or Iceland.
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> Of course, it is unlikely that complex behaviors will be governed by isolated mutations, so the task is to look for highly predictive motifs (e.g. regular expressions).
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> Ha! Now you're trolling. The answer is: "because the sites that generate reading ability (or whatever) *also* generate other 'abilities'", with "abilities" in scare quotes because many abilities are considered bad ... like the ability of a pimply faced white dude to shoot up a church or blow up a federal building.
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> In addition to polyphenism, there's robustness. If more than 1 site generates the same functional ability (reading), then do we write them all? ... just one of them? ... a probabilistically predictive handful of them?
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> So find the sites that correspond to reading ability, or whatever, and WRITE them.
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> I was alerted to this article this morning:
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> Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?
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> It should delight those amongst us who rant about the "woke". 8^D But it dovetails nicely with the fraught concept of equality in the other thread.
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> Coincidentally, also on 9/6, the BIAPT announced their early career prize winner Emily McTernan:
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> On Sep 8, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com<mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com>> <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com<mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Frank C. Wimberly
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> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, 4:57 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com> <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>> <mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com<mailto:marcus at snoutfarm.com>>> wrote:
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> Yeah, it is hard to get excited about “unusual” variance. Modern
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> Gen'fur this, gen'fur that... and also the realities of biological complexity....
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