Video explaining how you can derive objective morality from civgene.
You can use behaviours unique to empaths to derive objective morality from science itself. Non-psychopathic behaviours are like atoms which in turn can be used to build rights, much like molecules.
More to come.
Edit 3/25: Updated video. Clearer and more concise edits with clips.
RAD or Reactive Attachment Disorder fits the civgene Amnesia Prototyping model perfectly.
“defined as a condition where an individual has difficulty forming lasting relationships and lacks the ability to be genuinely affectionate toward others. In addition, persons with RAD do not learn to trust others and do not appear to develop a conscience.”
What creates the conditions for RAD?
“This is believed to be caused by abuse or separation (physical or emotional) from one’s primary caregiver during the first three years of life”
The metamind model explains what is happening. The non-psychopath’s brain is in a different mode at this age. Instead of forming memories the metamind is forming types of memories or prototypes. If a child is forced into risk assessment for survival (severe abuse) or has no emotional input whatsoever (Daniel Solomon ignored in an orphanage), prototypes are never created, and the metamind (the conscience/subconscious) can’t compare unlike things. The metamind is a risk engine fed by emotional metadata. With no data to output, no risk is modeled, and no conscience is displayed.
Of course the solution has already been found. Attachment therapy. What’s new is Civgene’s contribution to why it works. A sufficient number of prototypes need to be formed so emotional structures can be attached to all memories, realizing the full biological EQ (and ultimately IQ) and forming a complete metamind. The therapy works because such an extreme trust is formed (in the absence of risk) that during the therapy. Hopefully in stretches of time that are long as possible. The key is no real consequences for the subjects actions, hence the conscience sends no risk signals. In that environment the metamind may change modes to prototyping. In that case it can write new emotional memories as prototypes doing the work that couldn’t occur at a young age. Writing the prototypes that would have naturally formed in between 2 and 8 years old.
The bad news here is, there has been much false hope for curing actual psychopaths. RAD victims may act like young psychopaths, but are not, nor ever will be psychopaths. They are reverting to the pre-civilization gene jealousy conscience (acting like a psychopath.) They have a metamind, but it never fully formed do to a lack of nurturing programming from guardians.
RAD untreated is a preventable, predictable, possibly lifelong, perpetuation of the first state of the metamind for humans born with one. The states are undeveloped(including RAD), suppressed(transitory), metapsychopathy, and protopsychopathy.
References:
http://blog.asha.org/2013/07/11/kid-confidential-what-reactive-attachment-disorder-looks-like/
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/317/transcript
Interesting brain study.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/12/why-smart-people-dont-multitask.html
This seemed tangential to civgene until i read this part.
“Talentsmart has tested more than a million people and found that 90% of top performers have high EQs. If multitasking does indeed damage the anterior cingulate cortex (a key brain region for EQ) as current research suggests, doing so will lower your EQ while it alienates your coworkers.”
There is a simple explanation for this in the metamind model of the conscience/subconcious. Rationalization, the process of logically assessing our subconscious emotional risk signals, is interrupted, or worse conflated with other signals (the core tool of propaganda and gaslighting). Many people (rightly) feel uncomfortable following un-rationalized intuition, so they ignore it. Becoming no better than a psychopath at assessing the immediate and current risks.
Further if lower effective intelligence results from frequent interruptions this strongly supports the idea that human intelligence is more than just a strong memory and fast logic processing. Very specifically it indicates that some part of subconscious thought management process(civgene says the metamind) is not only part of intelligence, but makes sense if it has it’s OWN memory structure(civgene indicates this is emotional metadata).
The metamind model could have predicted the outcome of this study. It explains it succinctly. Always a good sign.
Prediction: If this study is replicated and the metamind is accepted as the explanation, then some time in topical psychotherapy (talk therapy) should be able to restore previously tested IQ and EQ scores. The damage isn’t permanent.
“Propaganda is like rain…knowing it’s wet does not keep you dry if you’re exposed to the weather.” — taopraxis
If you master spotting propaganda can you stand in the face of it? It seems to me the answer is ‘a brief while.’ Like the beginning of a rain storm, understanding wet cold drops on your skin is not useful if you don’t take cover. Soon you’ll be soaked and shivering.
Chris Martinson has won this year’s subconscious Olympics. Not only for feeling the early drops, but warning other people to take cover. Please read his excellent primer on propaganda and how it works.
https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/103565/were-being-played
And once you’ve identified a media outlet as untrustworthy, please come in out of the rain.
What is conspiracy theory? It is a theory about two or more people conspiring against at least a third. There have been have many proven theories throughout history. The evidence that people do sometimes conspire against each other is so enormous, it indicates that people who disparage it have had a fully alien set of life experiences, or more likely, are attempting to distort a basic truth. That conspiracy theories can be correct and lower personal risk if acted upon. As a simple thought experiment, team sports are inherently conspiratorial. Every competitive game played coherently by more than three players with any strategy or tactics whatsoever has been to some degree conspiratorial.
If it is clearly useful even to the simplest decision making, where does disdain for it come from? Conspiracy theory is feared because excessive theory creation is a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. Where the person suffering from it, will attach a malicious intent to most and sometimes even all actions of others. This level of mistrust makes it impossible to participate in the inherent trusts of society (like freedom or friendship.) Since the metamind’s alerts are so over-active, the rational mind never develops properly. Trapped in desperate race to rationalize a flood of emotional warnings. The worst cases of paranoid schizophrenia are a form of insanity, and may end in injuries and deaths. Fears of an extreme paranoid, while often casually or even satirically misdiagnosed, are justified when one does actually occur.
Schizophrenia, the over-active conscience.
So what is Schizophrenia? Like most disease it is a spectrum. The metamind (the conscience) as a risk engine makes this easier to understand. If the metamind is too active, it’s owner struggles. Preparing against enemies with no purchase or little impact. Suffering from various levels of paranoia. In the most extreme case preparing against enemies that don’t exist.
What advantage in natural selection does a spectrum have? Civgene helps put this in perspective. Psychopaths pre-date non psychopath humans. The number of psychopaths and their subsequent influence on societies barbarism, is highly variable. Their population grows until they collapse a society and it’s economy. A highly active metamind is paranoid in times of few psychopaths, and highly useful at psychopath saturation. An individual with mild schizophrenia (a more active metamind), has natural resistance to psychopathy in others.
Abphrenia
Since the utility of conspiracy theory is subject to an external factor, the reverse is true as well. A person with a least active conscience lands at the other end of spectrum. The mental risk manger is less active than it needs to be or in the worst case entirely absent. It fails to warn the rational mind about clear and present dangers. The level of warning that would be a good fit in a society with few psychopaths, fails to detect conspiracies in a the corrupt one.
Why is abphrenia a disorder at all? Trust can be a positive attribute in a trustworthy environment, but puts us at risk of protopsychopathy outside of one. Emotional manipulation can reprogram the conscience that doesn’t protect itself. Marketing, propaganda, and gaslighting are just a few common ways this can happen. An underactive metamind puts it’s owner at risk of membership in cult, be it political or religious.
Protopsychopathy
Once someone is a protopsychopath, their conscience is owned and controlled by a person or organization of people outside themself. So long as this control remains, they can be made to act perpetually against their own self interest. In this light it is easy to see how a mildly paranoid metamind is a genetic advantage. Conspiracy theories, in moderation or mild excess, protect you from emotional control. Avoiding this situation entirely.
While paranoid schizophrenics are obvious, clashing with reality with strange views and actions, abphreniacs are usually passive and subtle. How do you detect their condition? If they have been captured as protopsychopaths, which is likely in corrupted society, it should be fairly easy. Protopsychoapthy captures the entire metamind. Not only ensnaring the risk manager and reprogramming it with false risks, but capturing the imagination as well. Lack of ability to cite personal (unpopular) conspiracy theories, or the ability to contrive one on demand, indicates their subconscious is not their own. If they can not it is likely that a psychopath or cult lurks in their past or present, controlling their ideas of risk.
Repair and progress
Not only can conspiracy theories be constructive, but their complete absence indicates emotional mind control. The good news is that the metamind is to varying strengths anti-fragile. When exposed to new emotional data, all but the strongest cases of protopsychopathy will fade or collapse. The protopsychopath’s subconscious mind is not a two way radio. If you are fighting a protopsychoapths programming head on, you are fighting a ghost. Their program, if clever enough, was told in advance to look out for all new sources of information as defectors. They will attack the people that try to help them most. Rather than confront a protopsychopath directly, introduce them to information sources you trust. Use inverse gaslighting techniques not to program them but to break their spell. Subtly introducing small doses of truth and letting their subconscious fold them into their entire calculation. A matchbook from an old neighborhood. An open window on a holiday. A memory of a success. A night on the town with family. Well timed humor. A kind word. A ‘forgotten’ magazine turned to the right page. Any kindness in view. Subtle repetition.
One day, with luck, the scales will be tipped, and their metamind will once again be open to new ideas, outside of others control. If their abphrenia is not too severe, their freedom will be permanent.
Found an interesting question in the civgene comments from Julia, part of a junior scholars program.
“If psychopathy is blamed on the brain, people may feel less morally responsible for their own psychopathic tendencies and therefore may be more likely to display those tendencies. We will also assess public recognition of these potential negative consequences of neuroscience communication.”
Very interesting premise. Before you dig too deep you should look at ‘century of the self’ A BBC special. It points out that the only people who’s behavior are reliably predictive by game theory are economists (Aware of the studies conditions) and psychopaths. Also consider Hare and many others work that there is NO behavioral technique alone that makes actual psychopaths better.
I’d say that your study has merit only if people falsely believe they are psychopath, when they are in fact not one. An actual psychopath will remain the same. So first you’ll need to know if your subject is a psychopath, or be prepared for a wider range of error. Also please read the warning at the end before you proceed.
As part of the premise of civgene I think all people have the entire psychopath behavioral set available to them, but the conscience is not voluntary so must be malformed, underdeveloped, manipulated or otherwise stymied for psychopathic behavior to increase it’s share of realized behavior.
Shunning is the healthy reaction to known psychopaths and it simulates conscience for the psychopath externally. If your subjects (false psychopaths) are tested under conditions of shunning and only shunning, they should not react with increased psychopathic behavior. In fact they may become far more humble and introspective.
If you charge your subjects up with emotional energy, it may dampen or otherwise drown out the messages from the conscience, and yes psychopathic behavior will increase. Like an overstimulated young child.
Please keep in mind there are special risks with narcissist stage psychopaths, should the actual psychopaths not be successfully screened out. I think that psychopaths progress though logical stages with similar attributes to id, ego and superego. A narcissist (the first stage) may react to being called a psychopath with violence against what they see as a misbehaving projection. This is known as narcissist rage. If you can’t be certain you have screened out all psychopaths from the subject pool, security will be necessary.
Thanks to Julia I am interested in how it turns out. Please stay in touch.
Open source really embodies three changes from typical hierarchical human social systems. Gift culture, the right to fork, and perpetually increasing levels of complexity. But these pieces are not all new, what changed to make open source happen? What problem is it actually solving?
Gift culture is not new. It is as old as currency. Currency predated coinage as barter and skills and tasks. So why did open source happen if not for gift culture? What did change? GPL. A new kind of copyright license establishing the right to fork. That’s how Linux, the trial of a hard right to fork based in law, succeeded.
The right to fork is not new. Clearly established by the Christian reformation, and enabled by Gutenberg, the right to fork, until the 1980s was only established against ultimate authorities by war. Civil rights in the freest countries acknowledged it and derived their rights from it, but did not explicitly establish as a basic rule of engagement and existence. In politics threats of an ultimate fork were often sufficient to deter one.
What is new? Complexity at modern levels is completely new. Where is the complexity? Not in tasks or problems to solve. They are still simple to explain. In communication. In language. What does language indicate? Respect for stature and respect for others time. Not always based in the currencies of accomplishment and skill, but as a product of many parallel societies. A focus on the importance of social structure undermines ideas, there for innovation, and ultimately investment. The social structure becomes impassible and no problems or tasks are solved.
Repairing social structure becomes a second level trap. Meetings are held. Seminars attended. No, a fork is needed. The problem needs to be solved in order to be assigned sufficient language to solve it. The language to solve the problems have no parallel and therefore no linguistic identifiers for needed concepts. The industry tries to solve this by pumping out new names and acronyms, but they are often the property of someone and useless for general progress. This is a distraction. Undeveloped ideas are slowed by the work needed to name them. In the computerized, Internet connected world, the source code is language of progress.
The complexity horizon is reached when the task is so complex that less efficient top down problem solving can no longer function. No amount of time spent can solve the problem from the top. ‘Leader’ understanding doesn’t scale language fast enough. The client can solve the problem better if administration doesn’t block him. No right to fork means the client no longer invests. Trust (predictability of future trends) is lost because their personal experience is impassible. Future investment is diminished.
The perception that the ability to understand a problem and articulate it are always equal is a lie. Therefore the complexity horizon occurs when comprehension of tasks outrun articulation of it. False cooperation becomes apparent (bogus reciprocity) and destroys trust. How can understanding outrun articulation? The subconscious must participate in solving the toughest problems. That is imagination. Rationalization of conceptualization is being outstripped. The metamind is doing the work but the rational mind and the mouth can’t keep up. If a fork can be had, the solution can employ more minds at the task of articulation. If it can’t the relationship between solver and the client grinds on failing to economize and destroying the trust needed for investment from both.
This would have been impossible to decipher without first exploring Civgene’s explanation of the metamind and it’s subconscious roles. Based in fundamental behavioral contrasts between humanity and the animal kingdom, and the implications for economics. Please explore those ideas at your leisure.
To help grasp this here are some practical applications of open source and roughly when their complexity horizons were reached. Note that the open source alternatives begin to gain momentum at the complexity horizon but are not accepted as inevitable until some time later.
Linux: 1993-1995
The original, complete, experiment. Operating systems are a software layer between varying hardware and the programs people are really trying to run. Commercial operating systems were plagued with bugs and suffered from declining stability. The cause was the non linear growth in variety of hardware a computer could be built with. Communicating in code eliminated grafted societies and their cumbersome verbal language.
Bitcoin: 2008-2010
Currency looses it’s value to a client as quality of transactions become less visible. The increasing non linear complexity of derivatives makes understanding any market impossible, ultimately damaging trade. By solving they Byzantine generals problem the complexity of language is eliminated. A small collaboration of solvers can write code to track and transfer currency for clients at a global scale in a transparent way.
Devops: 2013-2016
Internet applications are a way to handle reliability and scalability problems. The non linear expansion of global cyberwarfare, and the non linear expansion of the internet of things (ultimately internet connected computers in all equipment) requires management of operating system functions at the network level or a systemic scale. This seems to be the first multi-factor complexity horizon. Devops holds another distinction as well. It is a new system. Not drawing on errors from past attempts to breach the horizon.
3d printers: Soon, perhaps some breaches now.
An epic confluence of complicating factors defy description and add complexity for manufacturing in on demand customization, trade, natural resources, security, and in the race to the atomic scale. 3d printers are likely the first multi-factor complexity horizon with more than two vectors of complexity. We have likely passed some of the factors already.
Here is a progression of one line axioms to help you understand the nature and risks of cult. Broken down to small pieces to simplify debate. I will update this post as needed. These truths are self evident.
What is faith
Religion and it’s political cousins
Protopsychopathy
Cult
Theocracy
Democracy
Freedom
Edit: Typo.
Edit: Changed ‘outsider coexistence’ to ‘peace with others’ to cult test, for clarity. Non violence is required.