my mind begins to hum...

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:02 pm

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 3:19 pm

Much of the early research on ego depletion was performed by Roy
Baumeister, Mark Muraven, and their colleagues. In a recent series of
studies, they suggest that a positive mood stimulus could help restore the
depleted energy. They report on four studies where the positive mood
stimulus was a surprise gift or short clips of stand-up comedy by Robin
Williams and Eddie Murphy. They do not claim a general benefit in positive
affect, i.e, benefit to people who had not previously engaged in self-
regulatory tasks, rather the positive stimulus restores the capacity to self-
regulate. The work is experimental and does not consider in depth the
mechanisms by which performance is restored, whether it is because of
an actual restoration of self-regulatory resources or provides an
additional motivation to press on with a depleted self remains an open
question.

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mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:19 pm

According to the mode deriving from dispute, we find that undecidable
dissension about the matter proposed has come about both in ordinary
life and among philosophers. Because of this we are not able to choose or
to rule out anything, and we end up with suspension of judgment. In the
mode deriving from infinite regress, we say that what is brought forward
as a source of conviction for the matter proposed itself needs another
such source, which itself needs another, and so ad infinitum, so that we
have no point from which to begin to establish anything, and suspension
of judgment follows. In the mode deriving from relativity, as we said
above, the existing object appears to be such-and-such relative to the
subject judging and to the things observed together with it, but we
suspend judgment on what it is like in its nature. We have the mode from
hypothesis when the Dogmatists, being thrown back ad infinitum, begin
from something which they do not establish but claim to assume simply
and without proof in virtue of a concession. The reciprocal mode occurs
when what ought to be confirmatory of the object under investigation
needs to be made convincing by the object under investigation; then,
being unable to take either in order to establish the other, we suspend
judgment about both.

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:39 pm

Exegesis is an attempt to discover the meaning of the text objectively,
while eisegesis is importing a subjective meaning into the text.

"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not
imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the
universe..The constructionist hypothesis breaks down when confronted
with the twin difficulties of scale and complexity..At each level of
complexity entirely new properties appear..Psychology is not applied
biology, nor is biology applied chemistry..We can now see that the whole
becomes not merely more, but very different from the sum of its parts."

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:34 pm

it would seem all sense of satisfaction is a derivative of hopes and dreams...

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:04 pm

The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and
indeterminacy. One's sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing
about disorientation. Liminality is a period of transition where normal
limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed -
a situation which can lead to new perspectives.

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:55 pm

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 10:59 pm

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:12 am

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:47 pm

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:52 pm

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:55 pm

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aÂ·couÂ·asmâ€‚ â€‚[uh-koo-az-uhm, ak-oo-az-]
â€“nounPsychiatry.
a nonverbal auditory hallucination, as a ringing or hissing.
Use acouasm in a Sentence.
See images of acouasm.
Search acouasm on the Web.
Also, acoasm, acousma.

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< Gk Ã¡kou(sma) something heard (akous-, s. of akoÃºein to hear + -ma resultative n. suffix) + -asm as in enthusiasm, orgasm, etc.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:58 pm

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mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:25 pm

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mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:57 pm

See pre-, ponder, -ant

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:18 pm

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:31 pm

Nietzsche believed that the ancient Greeks created tragedy as a result of
their pessimism. "Is pessimism necessarily a sign of decline, decay,
degeneration, weary and weak instincts ... Is there a pessimism of
strength? An intellectual predilection for the hard, gruesome, evil,
problematic aspect of existence, prompted by well-being, by overflowing
health, by the fullness of existence?"

Nietzsche's response to pessimism was the opposite of
Schopenhauer's. " 'That which bestows on everything tragic, its peculiar
elevating force' " â€“ he (Schopenhauer) says in The World as Will and
Representation, Volume II, P. 495 â€“ " 'is the discovery that the world, that
life, can never give real satisfaction and hence is not worthy of our
affection: this constitutes the tragic spirit â€“ it leads to resignation.' " How
differently Dionysus spoke to me! How far removed I was from all this
resignationism!"

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:03 pm

Contention is as much a contest over meaning as it is a struggle over resources
The rational actor model is problematic, whether applied to collectives or individuals
Opportunities are made as often as they are recognized

"...in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth
of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention
of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of
attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the
overabundance of information sources that might consume it"

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:40 pm

the norm appears to be a social inevitability.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:44 pm

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:48 pm

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:13 pm

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:55 pm

mayavin · Post by **mayavin** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:57 pm

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:09 pm

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:24 pm

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:32 pm

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the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:50 pm

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Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:28 pm

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my mind begins to hum...

positive-spectrum Meta-emotion aspirants: let shit go

child's play.