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<p>I have no data nor analysis on this. Unless you admit anecdotes
and intuition as such. It might well be nothing more than my
personal fetish.<br>
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<p>I (intuitively) contend that the full spectrum of extreme
privacy to (?pathological?) sharing is within the "natural" (to
individual organisms and to various forms of groupings of
individuals organized in myriad combinations) spectrum of human
(and maybe animalia/mammalian/primate) behaviour.</p>
<p>I appreciate the "loneliness epidemic" discussion. I would
(intuitively) contend that pre-agricultural/civilizational
living was probably a lot *less* lone(r)ly than what
evolved/emerged after we all started settling down and
compacting as we could/must to be agricultural and
civilizational/urban? I suspect there are many, many modes of
communal interaction which are "healthy" and we have explored
many of them, unfortunately there are all those others. I
suspect we go through waves of *qualitatively different* forms
of separation/coupling and on the shoulder of those phasings
probably identify as "lonely" based on the local gradient over
time or population (friend groups who seem more sociable?)<br>
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<p>but I think this is a scoping/scaling thing. What I'm calling
"healthy" *might* be acutely survivorly/thriverly for an
individual but not so much for the larger group they are
(genetically/culturally) related to. Perhaps "healthy" somehow
should be a scale-free measure such as what happens in the
holarchies of self-organized (lifelike) systems gestured toward
by Michael Levin's work in scale-free cognition and cognitive
light cones?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/26/25 12:05 PM, glen wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:8bbb9f8a-f190-4dcf-abfb-f6ebf21da90f@gmail.com">Is it,
though? Yeah, I get that it's part of the folk psychology cannon
that we're inherently social and *want* to export our fetish to
the group. Or, as a DJ or Christian Pastor, we all really get off
on enveloping others into our little cult.
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But is that belief real? Do we have data supporting the belief? Of
what type is that data? Is there an equivalent amount of
unobserved behavior that argues that "we" like to keep things
private? But because we like to keep that stuff private, there's
no widespread evidence that it exists?
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Is the desire for privacy somehow *perverse*? Obviously, if
there's a widespread behavior to export our fetish, then it would
only be weirdos/terrorists/criminals that would want their
behavior to remain private? Right?
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This article was deep and interesting:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-myth-of-the-loneliness-epidemic">https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-myth-of-the-loneliness-epidemic</a>
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On 3/26/25 8:30 AM, steve smith wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">glen concluded/:/
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/ It feels analogous to religious nutjobs who insist that
others think/talk in terms of their chosen pantheon. It's like
they *need* others to participate in their masturbatory
fantasies.
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/
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I believe this is a widespread human behavior/affect/motivation:
Following McGilchrist's lateralization/bicameralism models, it
seems that both the right/intuitive-emotive and the
left/analytic-reductionist are capable of entrainment with
others... Glen's RAVE-groove vs Maths-proofs are both examples
of things done at least partially (if not significantly) as a
public/shared activity. I know folks who can slap some earcans
on and groove out to their best tunes (almost?) as if they were
in a mosh-pit or a line-dance (choose your favorite genre).
Similarly analytic work is generally something done in relative
isolation/privacy, but it is coupled with a collective action...
it is often in response to various group-level problem-solving
unctions. There is lots of anecdotal evidence that some folks
go off into the wilderness and solve maths proofs in caves and
never discuss or share them with anyone, but I suspect the ratio
of that activity to those working in academic institutions,
teaching one's best tricks to a fresh generation of students,
publishing in academic journals, etc. is small.
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That said, there is something to the ebb and flow of coupling
across populations and over time. It is likely that the
complexity of expression that can be achieved in relative
(albeit temporary) isolation exceeds or at least differs
qualitatively from that which emerges while in (tight?) coupling
with others? Communal/Collective/Social species/populations
would seem to be taking advantage of something? I'd imagine
that the Swarm DevGRoup literature/legacy would have theories or
practice around this spectrum of individual/collective
intentions? Or more generally relevant to this group at-large
ABMs?
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On 3/26/25 7:44 AM, glen wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I think what might be left out of this
analysis is the "need for cognition". I don't think emotion
and reason are biologically disjoint. But I do think emotion
tends to be more systemic, has a positive feedback or a
"washes over you" element that reason doesn't usually have.
(Perhaps caveat some people, or most people taking a nootropic
that facilitates getting into the Flow.) People who exhibit a
high "need for cognition" are either less prone to the
positive feedback in emotional responses or their reasoning is
equally engulfing. I can *imagine* being just as awestruck
while working through a complicated proof as being caught up
in a cool groove at a rave. I can only imagine it though.
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People like Allison may have an impoverished need for
cognition. But even that may be too simple. He obviously
worked very hard on his videos. And it takes more than a
little technical and artistic skill to be a successful DJ.
Your idea of self-stimulation works in that sense.
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But what's more interesting is the desire to take whatever
stimulus excites you *public*. E.g. let's say I find it fun to
flip quarters and count the heads. I could do that for hours
on end, till my fingers are sore. What might drive me to a) do
that in front of other people? b) Encourage other people to do
it? c) Find ways to reinforce how much fun it is? d) If others
don't seem to respond, up the ante or get mad at them? Etc.
Allison seemed to love gore, violence, putrid hate, etc. as
well as a good groove at a DJ gig. Fine. To each their own.
But what extra element is added by engineering gore- and
hate-filled videos to stoke it in others? That I don't
understand.
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It feels analogous to religious nutjobs who insist that others
think/talk in terms of their chosen pantheon. It's like they
*need* others to participate in their masturbatory fantasies.
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On 3/25/25 10:13 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I don’t know anything more about the
Allison story than you provided, but it seems plausible to
me there could be a common psychological syndrome here. In
his case, a synergy between stimulation that amounts to
pornography combined with the recruitment of parts of the
brain used for emotional engagement and moral reasoning.
If one has watched Musk unravel over the last few years, he
could be experiencing something similar. He seems addicted
to the transgressive ideas, even more so than Trump. It
gets him off and now there is no social pressure that can
contain it. Even with Tesla trending down, there’s plenty
of fuel to keep the fire burning.
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This paper develops the idea with fMRI evidence:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.1062872">https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.1062872</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.1062872"><https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.1062872></a>
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Comparing the two individuals:
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An emotionally intense self-concept becomes fused with a
platform identity.
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That platform becomes the stage for moral, emotional, and
identity battles.
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Over time, external feedback (likes, fans, outrage) replaces
internal filtering.
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Public behavior becomes more personal, moralistic, and
emotionally amplified.
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*Boundaries collapse*— between public/private,
personal/professional, belief/strategy.
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*From: *Friam <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com"><friam-bounces@redfish.com></a> on behalf of
glen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com"><gepropella@gmail.com></a>
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*Date: *Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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*To: *friam@redfish.com <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com"><friam@redfish.com></a>
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*Subject: *[FRIAM] intgegration
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Secret Life of Matthew Allison
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber">https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber"><https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber></a>
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Frank and I had several arguments a long while back about
the ontological status of the "integrated self" (e.g.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-10217-002">https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-10217-002</a>)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-10217-002)"><https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-10217-002)></a>.
Meanwhile, many of us have gone 'round and 'round about the
extent to which we can take behaviorism seriously. While
Allison may be an extreme case, I maintain that each of us
compartmentalizes, not merely as a coping or defense
mechanism, but as a fundamental part of what it means to be
an animal. I've also accused Dave of the composition fallacy
in arguing for high order psychological phenomena as an
effect of low order brain lateralization. But I also find
"we are multitudes" a convenient if not entirely true
rhetorical frame for talking about our (most of us) lack of
psychological integration.
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Given all that, I am almost never surprised when one of
someone's secret selves peeks through whatever veneer
they've presented to me. The default assumption should be
epistemic humility. Each time you catch yourself thinking
you understand someone, pull out your discipline whip and
use it.
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-- <br>
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