Behavior: The Control of Perception

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and this is itself an answer to a question that might arise from reading Behavior: The Control of Perception of "why doesn't this reorganization happen automatically?"

Behavior: The Control of Perception relates to Unlocking the Emotional Brain in relation to learning, unlearning, & the role of conscious awareness therein
- video of me talking about this youtu.be/AigDi5PEEc8

Keywords - brain hemispheres coercion what is coercion? productivity scapegoat Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing Conversation As Medium make shared or different frames explicit shared train of thought do people naturally self-regulate how deep they're willing to go? commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets dream mashups Unlocking the Emotional Brain IFS partswork what might a healthy community look like? doing community well The Master and his Emissary intro left hemisphere right hemisphere Behavior: The Control of Perception Perceptual Control Theory Hemisphere Dharma Change doesn't just happen Hemispheres & Self-improvement left hemispheres aren't made for interfacing with other people Perceptual Control Theory control systems

1:20:17 - 1:26:20 - What drives us to attempt to understand how our minds work? To understand the deeper parts of ourselves Behavior: The Control of Perception Perceptual Control Theory Hemisphere Dharma

This probably wants to go somewhere more specific, but this thing relates to the Conflict chapter of Behavior: The Control of Perception
- twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/1311589819257098241

As discussed in Behavior: The Control of Perception, such an approach, while very common, is intrinsically self-undermining.

I re-read ch18 Conflict from Behavior: The Control of Perception this morning, and was struck by some connection between it and this piece by Ken MacLeod:
- The Double-Bind: gate or trap?
  - double bind
- Both are talking, in different ways, about the intensity of what happens when faced with conflicting demands, and the reorganization that occurs as a result, as well as how that reorganization can be life-enriching and enlightening, or can entrench people further into stuckness