left hemisphere

game: my mind calls me the body -aka- taking mind as object

• (it's always the mind that does the articulating—by "mind" here we are referring to something quite close to the left hemisphere)

June 19th, 2024

• vaguely thinking about genies & AI risk — and it seems like the genie here is very much unchecked mind/left hemisphere

December 21st, 2023

• left hemisphere / right hemisphere
  • MS > but there's true-me stuck in the LH
  • MS > "this isn't rooted in the sociosensual, so stop that"
    • MO > "which isn't very sociosensual"

July 19th, 2023

• left hemisphere/right hemisphere <-> dominance & submission
  • ericyoungstrom.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5455/2013/09/Demar…

March 30th, 2023

• LH left hemisphere

June 13th, 2022

• left hemispherey stuff seems relevant here, as does PCT

Podcast summaries

• 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 DharmaChange doesn't just happenHemispheres & Self-improvement left hemispheres aren't made for interfacing with other people Perceptual Control Theory control systems

• Keywords - brain hemispheres McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model Perceptual Control Theory barn-raising Internal Family Systems blindspot blindspot feedback is hard (but possible!) it's only possible to be rational within a frame make shared or different frames explicit Change doesn't just happen Intend productivity Intend Philosophy & Paradigm how to think about goals PCT internal conflict much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Geoffrey West Questions for teasing apart the concept of commitment commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing acceptance isn't the same as acceptance safety self-trust right hemisphere left hemisphere self-energizing

• 1:17:54 - 1:35:18 - How do you wake yourself up from dream mashups? How do you interact with people projecting their dream mashups on you? Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing acceptance isn't the same as acceptance safety self-trust right hemisphere left hemisphere

• 56:30 - 1:10:40 - Why is Ian McGilchrist's work important? Is his work factual or more metaphorical The Master and his Emissary intro left hemisphere right hemisphere

• 1:10:42 - 1:19:58 - Explaining how the hemispheres work using information processing/computation as a metaphor left hemisphere Categories, AI & Left Hemisphere it's the left hemisphere's job to have blindspots right hemisphere complexity systems thinking Donella Meadows resources for systems thinking

• 1:40:11 - 1:46:43 - What makes for good conversation? left hemispheres aren't made for interfacing with other people Perceptual Control Theory control systems

McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model

• left hemisphere & right hemisphere (for backlinks)

September 11th, 2021

• polarity management - maybe isomorphic with panarchy loop, and it seems to map onto left hemisphere/right hemisphere dynamics
  • talks about either-or thinking
  • breathing in, breathing out
  • sources:
    • Managing Polarities Of Wholeness
      • Balancing and Leading Head-Heart Tensions in Schools
      • The Power of "And"
    • Polarity Management
      • A Summary Introduction
      • Barry Johnson, September 1998

September 7th, 2021

• left hemispheres aren't made for interfacing with other people
  • twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1214444739531100160

• it's the left hemisphere's job to have blindspots
  • (maybe there are tweets on this)

• task-positive network ~= left hemisphere running the show

two directions of abstraction

• left hemisphere abstraction is "higher"

• The term "abstraction" is most commonly associated with what the left hemisphere does, which is taking things out of context.

Self-Organized Criticality

• This seems like a really important structure, possibly in some sense more fundamental to the universe than the idea of addition (which first requires the notion of separate "things" that can be counted and combined without regard to relation; itself not a simple affair, though quite native to a human left hemisphere)

(mis)Translating the Buddha

• something something left hemisphere

Empty Logic

• On the one hand, it can give the left hemisphere a more native grasp of issues like paradox & ambiguity, rather than it simply rejecting them altogether.

• On the other hand, it can reinforce the left hemisphere's sense that everything worth knowing can be known formally (and by the left hemisphere) whereas there are other kinds-of-knowing that are not captured by this.

• However! It seems to me that a lot of these sorts of explanations are still starting from form and moving towards emptiness. It seems there might be able to be something analogous to formal logic that is fully right hemisphere-based rather than being left hemisphere-based.

June 12th, 2020

• idk this tweet is related to #language and left hemisphere
  • twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1260165111307591681

Werewolf variant ideas

• but this would immediately bork in left hemisphere land, as an explicit declaration, because
  • if it's a fakeable signal (which it is on the explicit level) then it doesn't count (and is therefore sort of suspicious)
  • to the extent it's not a fakeable signal, then murphy has an obvious incentive to bork you, which.... OH. fascinating, if you were interconnected person, you actually would be more okay with this than if you were scarcity-minded person!
    • but it's still... non-ideal, from all persons perspective, to have the non-scarcity-oriented person hit by a bus. this is legit bad for the person team, afaict, especially if everyone else is in scarcity mode

thoughts on learning & finite & infinite games

• has game mechanics that add a lot of hard-to-fake data that allows the left hemisphere to feel like it knows what's going on

• This is a kind of left hemisphere-oriented trust-building. It says "we are going to assume we are all perfect liars, and prove the inconsistency of the lies, and we have no data, so your accusation is unfounded."
  • (Moreover, this game is stupid because we're supposed to decide to kick someone out of the game when we don't have any data!)

Questions for Iain McGilchrist

• something about monism as a left hemisphere distillation of right hemisphere non-dual perspective

asymmetric containment

• This then applies directly to the two brain hemispheres. The right hemisphere is based on both/and thinking, and can understand and appreciate the left hemisphere's role in thinking, which is either/or based. The left hemisphere cannot understand how the right hemisphere functions. It can have a model of it, but trusting the right hemisphere appears to require a kind of faith.

Reality is alive: don't carve it

• This is related to how the left hemisphere sort of like assembles things from parts, and it's not that the right hemisphere's perspective is a "whole made of parts" but that it starts with the everythingness of everything before even considering how one might talk about dividing it