[FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

[Nick Thompson]

All, 

 

Here is your assignment for tomorrow.  

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281410347_Comparative_psychology_and_the_recursive_structure_of_filter_explanations

 

There will be a quiz:  What is the difference between a circular explanation and a recursive one.  What is the key dimension that determines whether an explanation is viciously circular?   Is the virtuus dormitiva viciously circular? Why?  Why not?  

 

Nick 

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 6:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

 

I apologize, Glen.  Please replace "cancer" with "pneumonia".

Frank Wimberly
Phone (505) 670-9918

 

On Jan 18, 2017 6:16 PM, "Frank Wimberly" <wimberly3 at gmail.com <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Why is my husband unable to breathe and coughs all the time?  And what is this large white area on his chest x-ray?

He has lung cancer.

How do you know?

Because he has difficulty breathing, he coughs constantly, and he has a positive chest x-ray.

Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz
Santa Fe, NM 87505

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com> ] On Behalf Of glen ?
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 5:32 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders


I found this opinion refreshing:

Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the President-Elect

http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2017/01/16/narcissistic-personality-disorder-and-the-president-elect/

I particularly liked the (strawman) circularity caricatured by conflating phenomenology with ontology:

> Wife: Why is my husband so self-important; why does he have such a sense of entitlement?
> Psychiatrist: Because he has an illness called narcissistic personality disorder.
> Wife: How do you know he has this illness?
> Psychiatrist: Because he is so self-important and has such a sense of entitlement.

But, personally, seeing [gag] Trump as the epitome of everything that's wrong with our culture, I can sympathize with the idea of using whatever tool we might have available to _demonstrate_ to others how thoroughly unable the man is to fill the role of President.  But we should be careful not to abandon our own principles in the process.

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☣ glen

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