Tag: evolutionary psychology
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All Communication is Manipulation
This essay is the first in a ten-installment series, but can be read as a standalone introduction: All Communication is Manipulation All Communication is Behavioral Manipulation Consensual and Nonconsensual Manipulation ACiM is a Natural Extension of Cybernetic Theory Response to Simpolism on ACiM A Landscape of Communication All Is Well E28: Functional Railroading All Is…
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Economics thinking
Mistakes in business or in science are costly and deplorable, but mistakes in the conduct of life are usually dangerous to life itself. To the tack of illuminating man’s progress toward a better understanding of human nature, this book is dedicated. Alfred Adler (1927) Everybody gets something out of every transaction. House of Games 1.…
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Predictive Processing & Art as Cognitive Remodeling
Visual art — representational imagery — begins somewhere between fifty and one-hundred thousand years ago, overlapping with the Upper Paleolithic Transition. The period consists of rapid gains in tool technologies alongside the beginnings of modern symbolic thought, with human societies developing currency systems, dispersed social organizations, and increasingly sophisticated religious belief.
