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gimulnautti

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Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

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Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

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https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

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https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
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gimulnautti , to bookstodon
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When any cognitive beliefs resist disproof by evidence, they are not factual beliefs.

They are secondary cognitive attitudes backed up by religious credence or political fervour.

The backing of the attitude in this case is strong enough to hide/normalise the split and oscillation between factual and imagined reality.

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Neil Van Leeuwen
Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity

gimulnautti , to bookstodon
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How do we know beliefs are make-believe?

Because factual beliefs respond to evidence, imaginings do not.


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Neil van Leeuwen
Religion as make-believe: A theory of belief, imagination and group identity

https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Make-Believe-Theory-Imagination-Identity/dp/067429033X

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If you have not read either of these books, then you really should.

Regardless of whether you like Non fic or not, if you are using this here big old interwebs, then honestly read them both. Start with Doppelganger and then read Code Dependant.

Is technology gonna destroy democracy? What about the whole of humanity?

These books made me worry, but both also gave hope for the future and the power of humanity and most of all communities.

@bookstodon

Front cover of the book Code Dependant by Maghumita Murgia which shows a Control keyboard button lit in purple and red

gimulnautti ,
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@Pappy @bookstodon Doppelganger is great. I think there’s even a weird glimmer of hope if we take the idea at face value, that MAGA is essentially worried about the same things as Occupy Wallstreet was, just that their solutions are completely backwards and destructive.

gimulnautti , to philosophy
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Probability of taking the time to find out the truth as inversely proportional to rate of culture events.

Propose a theory: The rate of culturally significant events experienced by the individual has an inversely proportional effect on the probability of that individual to takes the time to independently verify and find out the truth.

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@philosophy Why? If we compare the rates of culturally significant events for an individual in the beginning of the modern era to contemporary digital media, we can observe that modern age (1800-1900’s) observer the space between significant information event was very long. It gave the individual ample time to check in their personal references and crosscheck whether the information they received could be trusted.
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@philosophy As the individual was in no pressure to reply swiftly nor was there an expectation to do so, ample time could be invested into checking the truthfulness of a proposition via independent verification.

For a contemporary digital observer, however, the time pressure to deliver merely an approximation of truthfulness is high.
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gimulnautti OP ,
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@philosophy The contemporary always-online culture demands an almost immediate responsiveness as the price of admission into whatever is the memetic event going on at the moment. You think, you lose. The moment already passed, and you missed out. Peer pressure becomes the driving factor due to pack-animal herd instincts emerging from the limbic system. Especially pronounced in young individuals with a strong social drive to fit in.
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gimulnautti OP ,
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@philosophy Formula representing ratio:

p(t) = p(b) * a(r(m) / r(t))

where p(t) = probability of a person spending time to find out the truth now
p(b) = base level of a person’s likelihood to spend time finding out the truth
a = function for modelling the correlation of rate of cultural events on an individual’s independent verification behaviour, includes peer pressure, age, etc, positive slope
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@philosophy
r(m) = rate of cultural events per timeframe of observation in the early modern era (late 1800’s / early 1900’s)
r(t) = rate of cultural events in our time now

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appassionato , to bookstodon
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.

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@Kirilov @KarunaX @ymishory @appassionato @bookstodon @palestine What am I not getting here? Study at advanced academy isn’t trustworthy simply because a large number of people say so. If anything, that high education isn’t trustwortht has lately become a rather popular argumentum ad populum..

gimulnautti , (edited ) to bookstodon
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The man who has not known fear, does not have to show he isn’t afraid.

I was one of those fortunate to be born into that condition, unlike Ta-Nehisi Coates.

That bravado and pomp is a product of fear, really took a better part of my life to grasp. Because when I finally knew fear it almost crushed me, and I marveled at those displaying power.

But no more. It always had an aura of problemacy, it’s self-feeding nature. It’s a trap.

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”Between the world and me”

gimulnautti , to bookstodon
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Finished Iain M Banks’ ”Surface Detail” the second time this week. Did not disappoint on 2nd read, not at all.

Although it’s occasionally horror-like storytelling yields a content warning for gruesome detail, the topic of religiosity and eternal punishment in hell deserves a bit of attention to it.

On second time, the connection to 2nd book of ’Culture’ series became much more enjoyable. The hint of a complete re-framing of the story of Zakalwe was out of this world!

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@Jennifer @bookstodon From the Culture series my recommended reading order is Player of Games, Use of Weapons or Excession either first (but in sequence) Surface Detail, Hydrogen Sonata, and Consider Phlebas as a prequel after the rest.

gimulnautti , (edited ) to philosophy
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”Meaning and purpose are just a distracted person’s imaginary friends.”

Sam Harris said this, and I want you to pay attention to any resistance you have to this idea?

Now, if you can let go of that resistance, then you can get to really utilising meaning and purpose in your life.

Like our feelings, they aren’t real. But every person feels something like them, and it’s the similarity of feeling-structures that is the key to using them, even if the statement holds.

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