Terminology Agreements

Emotional Learning

Our learning makes our animal emotionality human. Whatever is important is only important because it’s emotionally important. Whatever is emotionally important is only emotionally important because we learned it to be. Though emotion has is own biological logic, the context it’s operating within is always learned. What we feel as emotionally important is not an

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Involuntary Servitude?

It is slavery’s logic, smuggled back in through another loophole. Where we ended: The commonplace acceptance of an implicit right to use each other, as if we are all just servant-assets, is the constitutional loophole protecting the predatory and parasitic manipulation that most endangers our species today. ChatGPT said: Yes – that’s exactly the constitutional

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Human Nature? Learning to Learn

DB: Given the scope of learning’s effects on our behaviors (physical, emotional, verbal, social, conscious, etc.) what can we say about human nature that is completely distinct from human learning? Gemini (G-Ai:) Human nature, as it’s commonly understood, is often portrayed as a fixed set of traits and tendencies inherent to all human beings. It’s

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dAilogues: Core Agreements About Learning

Core Agreements About Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Throughout the conversation that follows can you keep all of the following prior agreements in mind so that your responses are considering what we have learned to together in the past? In earlier conversations, we agreed: that children can’t help but learn to become

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dAilogues: Our Learning Disabling Conception of Learning

Our Learning Disabling Conception of Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Misattributing causes to effects misdirects and misorients our learning about those effects. Maladaptive cognitive schema and maladaptive emotional reflexes are both consequences of having learned to make and believe in attributions that shunt learning into acceptance and reinforcement rather than scaffold learning

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dAilogues: Verbal and Nonverbal Learning

Verbal and Nonverbal Learning  Index of other dAilogues I wrote the following in 1987. Do you understand it? Do you agree with it? How would you say it today? Verbal awareness is not just the awareness of words but the organization of awareness by images, symbols, and words. Nonverbal awareness is not just the non-awareness

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dAilogues: Resonance, Attraction & Impedance vs Attenuation

Resonance, Attraction, & Impedance vs Attenuation Index of other dAilogues Is there a term for the relationship between “resonance” and “attraction”? Does resonance have a kind of gravity that correlates all that resonates? While there isn’t one specific term for the relationship between resonance and attraction, various concepts and theories explore this connection. Here are

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dAilogues: Maladaptive Learning

Maladaptive Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Let’s come to a shared understanding of the term “maladaptive learning“. What does the term mean to you?  Maladaptive learning, in my understanding, refers to a learning process where an individual acquires or reinforces behaviors or thought patterns that hinder their ability to adapt effectively to

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dAilogues: Foundational Misattributions and Their Consequences

Foundational Misattributions and Their Consequences (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues List and give one or two sentence descriptions of the biggest mistakes in human history that boil down to having been a consequence of a foundational misattribution.  Here are some of the biggest mistakes in human history rooted in foundational misattributions, along with

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