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If I end up being on a stream and having to discuss r/K, is there a FAQ you’ve put together for some of the most common objections to the theory? I know most of them by now, but I’m still struggling with the r-as-migrant idea. If I understand it, the left liberals in the US want to instinctively migrate, but there’s no resource richer area to migrate to, so their instincts are going haywire. Like bad-mouthing their own in-group… while still living among that in-group (!). So is the idea that conditions have to turn K for that to happen, and how do they know they’ll find a more resource rich civilizations somewhere else to go to? Thanks.
Thanks for the mention. That is the only way it will get out, because the major platforms are all blacklisting it.
The FAQ is a good idea. I’ll do an FAQ on the common complaints. Every one, literally every one is bullshit and easily refuted, but I should consolidate the refutations.
On the migrant urges, that is basically it. They are designed to ally with outsiders and take off for there, but given the resource glut here making them r, they have to stay, so they just exchange migration to the foreign for importing the foreign.
I think the urge to migrate originated after the ice age, as the r-animals spread out into the newly thawed territories. It wasn’t that there was a rich civilization, it was that there was a neighboring territory filled with animals and no humans hunting there. So when your area turned K, they took off into the new area. It is why we covered the globe. it just kept happening, with the r’s in each area jumping to the new area.
Eventually I think it became just fleeing violence (produced by K) in their own area, and those r’s which began with a preference and favoritism for the outsiders in neighboring areas which weren’t violent were the best at it, and fled the most easily, and integrated the best. Several hundred generations of selecting for that, and it was in the r-genome.
Thanks again.
Do you know about any experiments/test that link meditation with the amygdala?
Oddly enough, I recall two sets of studies, one showed Buddhist seemed to focus on turning off the amygdala, while I think there was a study on Tibetan which showed they were activating it. I think meditation which involves shutting off all negativity, and going blank or focusing on a calming, meaningless mantra is probably turning off the amygdala. That may be good to give your amygdala a moment to catch its breath between stresses, but you need those stresses, so long term it is probably not strengthening it.
Meditation which focuses you on ideas, or prioritizes relevance weighing as you meditate on an idea, or simulates a stressful situation in the controlled environment of your mind, may be much better.
You can learn an immense amount about amygdala simply through observing around you, and looking for when amygdalae get hit. When your’s is hit, it is interesting to go back and replay the hit, and look at how your cognition changed right after it. Eventually you can begin to model what the sensation is which attracts and focuses your attention. And over time, you will realize that if you remove stresses and adapt to that, it is no good, because your mind will begin to rebel at the little meaningless things which are so prolific they will make the world intolerable, if you care about them.
It is also interesting as you deal with others, to see their’s take hits, and look closely at how it changes them.
That would make sense.
I know somebody who had a (really) severe concussion. And after a couple of days/weeks she started suffering from over-stimulation. Any kind, touch, sound, light. It did get better very very gradually, now after two years she is finally able to do what she did before (work wise). But still has to take things slowly. She now meditates quite often 2 or 3 times a day, whereas before the concussion she did not do that at all.
So it seems to me as if the concussion created a hair-trigger mechanism, that fired repeatedly. This then burns through the brains energy reserves leaving her unable to cope with anything and almost perpetually tired.
Now that things have improved, the mediation probably helps to build up an energy reserve by disabling the amygdala for a time. After that she is fine until the reserves get too low and has to repeat the process.
Just speculating of course.
Also, I think I did a post on meditation somewhere. Try the search box in the sidebar.
Ta, AnonCon. That’s very kind of you.