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<div dir="ltr">Science week before last, mixed in with the
telomere-to-telomere human genome, <a
href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0713"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0713</a>
discusses
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style="color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:"PT
Serif",serif;font-size:18px">Thompson </span><i
style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:"PT
Serif",serif;font-size:18px">et al.</i><span
style="color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:"PT
Serif",serif;font-size:18px"> (</span><a
href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0713#core-R3"
role="doc-biblioref" id="gmail-body-ref-R3-1"
style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(202,32,21);text-decoration-line:none;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-image:linear-gradient(90deg,rgb(89,89,89)
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0.0625rem;font-family:"PT
Serif",serif;font-size:18px" moz-do-not-send="true"><i
style="box-sizing:border-box">3</i></a><span
style="color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:"PT
Serif",serif;font-size:18px">) describe taking an
experimental approach to the question of how opportunities
to selectively learn from successful role models can favor
the spread of more adaptive, but less intuitive, cognitive
heuristics over more intuitive and memorable alternatives.</span></blockquote>
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<div>which is <a
href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn0915"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn0915</a>.</div>
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<div>Old age is the revenge of the memorable over the adaptive?</div>
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<p>Arguments for generational rather than Individual/personal growth
and transformation...<br>
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<blockquote><i><span style="color: rgb(62, 72, 85); font-family:
Averta, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
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!important; float: none;">“I don’t think we should try to have
people live for a really long time,” Musk<span> </span></span></i><i><a
href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-interview-axel-springer-tesla-war-in-ukraine-2022-3"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(98,
88, 255); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family:
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told Insider</a></i><i><span style="color: rgb(62, 72, 85);
font-family: Averta, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:
18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">. “It would cause asphyxiation of
society because the truth is, most people don’t change their
mind. They just die. So if they don’t die, we will be stuck
with old ideas and society wouldn’t advance.”</span></i><br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/11/elon-musk-on-avoiding-longevity-research-i-am-not-afraid-of-dying.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/11/elon-musk-on-avoiding-longevity-research-i-am-not-afraid-of-dying.html</a></p>
<p>And</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">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. . . . An
important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by
gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely
happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its
opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is
familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance
of the fact that the future lies with the youth.</p>
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initial;">— <cite style="font-style: inherit;">Max Planck,
Scientific autobiography, 1950, p. 33, 97</cite></div>
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<p><cite></cite>I like to challenge young(er) people with the idea
that they (and/or their children) might *have to* live forever.
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<p>In my youth (pre-50) I had a hard time honestly contemplating
senescence, much less mortality. It was as-if I thought I would
live (without diminished capacity) forever. Every challenge (I
thought) made me stronger, and every wound was to become a scar
that would in some way be useful later. In spite of that, I
believe I would have lived my life much differently had I honestly
believed I would "live forever". <br>
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<p>There are all the regrets people have about how they would have
treated their bodies better had they known they would be stuck
struggling with various conditions resulting from neglect and
abuse in their later years. There are also the regrets people
have about not living their lives as fully in the period where
their appetites and naivetes allowed for a sort of hedonism that
often fades with age (and experience). <i>Youth being wasted on
the young</i>, as we often note.<br>
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<p>The regrets I am now most focused on are those of how one learns
and builds/manages one's world-view(s), one's ontology(ies). I
think this relates to a tangent I won't indulge inline of
code-switching vs mode-switching.<br>
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<p> Following <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/against_narrativity.pdf">Galen
Strawson's thesis</a> on the <i>Episodic</i> vs the <i>Diachronic</i>
(nod to Glen), I suppose I might like to have experienced life
more <i>Episodically</i> than I have, to have allowed myself a
less continuous narrative of self to have been experienced. I
certainly can recognize the benefit of *breaks* in what I can call
a piecewise narrative life, punctuated by geographical moves,
graduations, marriages and divorces, job and career changes.
Each of those events allowed me to rethink my own narrative, but
fundamentally, each new persona that emerged from the rubble left
from the dismantling of the artifacts of the last one was
essentially the same. Since I don't identify strongly as an
Episodic "Self", I don't know if that sort of inside-outism from
Diachronic (if that is even a fair description) is more free to
*discover* itself, rather than (re)*invent* itself? Or is there a
hidden diachronic-self obscured to the episodic-selves, by the
fundamental conceit of not believing in an underlying
continuity-self? This is likely a mis-reading/understanding of
Strawson whose examples are taken from his own self-proclaimed
Episodic self-experience vs my own self-diagnosed Diachronic.</p>
<p>Returning to the ideation of "living forever" (or at least much
longer than planned for), I wish for my grandchildren (still in
formative stages at 4 and 10) that they be prepared much more
fundamentally for self-re-discovery/invention than I was/am and
than my own grand/parents, and very likely their own parents who
are somewhat (naturally?) shaped a bit too much after me and mine.</p>
<p>Following RECs original posting, How to prepare these
human-be(com)ings to be adaptive at a scale in their own lives,
formerly achieved only by generational adaptivity?</p>
<p>~~ sas --<br>
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