affective determinants (i.e. motives, attitudes, moods, and emotions). emotions facial expressions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8wJ8tjmnmU neutral happy surprise angry disgust fear sad They were very old and they had no human ties or affections. They seemed to look upon the world with a humorous cynicism. They had lived through every kind of illusion and held existence in a malicious and laughing contempt. They had no tolerance for the follies of men and no indulgence for their weakness. There was something vaguely frightening in their entire lack of attachment to human beings. They had done with love, they had finished with the anguish of separation, death had no terrors for them, they had nothing left now but laughter. Somerset Maughm: The Gentlemen in the Parlour, last paragraph Chapter IX Brahmaputra Irrawaddy Salween Mehkong Flow from Tibet to Indian ocean location of CMU gym enter from the rear entrance off suthep road, make a right at the circle and they are close by. I experience myself as the tip of a great iceberg of consciousness. Do what you want to. Slomo on facebook op-docs video. Plato republic Internal the man vs the government Secondhand Lions Speech, we believe in things that are not necessarily true https://youtu.be/y1-KbmIagFw Agency Karma Japanese forced British POW to build a railroad to Burma bridge 4000 died and are buried, some in Burma, some in Kanchanaburi confluence of two rivers Khwae Yai - River Kwai Khwae Noi combine into Mek Klong https://goo.gl/maps/JR28B3QxKLp จังหวัด กาญจนบุรี Kanchanaburi Province แม่น้ำ แคว River Kwai --------------------------- https://youtu.be/eOoPAcvkKQk Forebrain Midbrain Hindbrain Brainstem Jordan Peterson https://youtu.be/RdNJTP6tYMs Gray: a model of the limbic system and basil ganglia Swanson: Expectancy models Vinegranova Sokolov Gray https://youtu.be/mQ3fe3vDQao Discipline Voluntary subjugation Compensate for neuroticism Finely honed sword of discernment https://youtu.be/wEdBgRWkF-I IQ and big five Men : antisocial personality disorder Women: borderline personality disorder Acting out disorders Impulsiveness Idealization-devaluation Abandonment IQ, conscientiousness, zero correlation Psychology and neurology, two different sides of the model. Survive, reproduce, expand, know. Why know? Does it enhance our ability to survive, reproduce, expand? Is it itself a form of expansion? Expand, contract. Survive, fail. Reproduce, stagnate. Survival is necessary only to promote reproduction. Mind body connection Endrocrine Neuro Neurotransmitter travels through the nervous system. Hormone travels through the blood. Cortisol, made in the adrenal cortex. Adrenaline, made in the inside part of the adrenal gland. Autoimmune disease: rheumatoid, MS, lupus. Always occur after stress event: loss, threat of loss, divorce. Sympathetic nervous system Parasympathetic nervous system: rest, digestion. https://youtu.be/ii_OWTqn1rw You see what you admire Alternative model The expansive self Hole in the mundane model. The origin First mover Big bang Give me one miracle and I can explain everything else scientifically. Looking at the mundane model, taking it to logical conclusions, leads to nihilism. All roads lead to nihilism. Logical refutation of the mundane model. Alan Watts, you cannot be separated from your environment . Tolstoy, no free will. Mundane Autonomous robots, the ego self is illusion No objects. Just colored water, swishing in the wind. Who is swishing the water? Everything = something = nothing Can should a robot go thru stages of life? Aging Natural selection https://youtu.be/fkjwL6gnvoA Complexity of hypothalamus and dna video of dna fixing itself National AI Policies competition among nations civil vs military https://medium.com/politics-ai/an-overview-of-national-ai-strategies-2a70ec6edfd Re: agency Yes, I appear to hear and see and talk and act, but to me it just happens, as to you digestion or perspiration happens. The body mind machine looks after it, but leaves me out of it. Just as you do not need to worry about growing hair, so I need not worry about words and actions. They just happen and leave me unconcerned, for in my world nothing ever goes wrong. — Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am That Reflex Instinct Intuition Clairvoyance Hypnotism as hacking Programming Bill Burr, Gold Digging Whores, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gaYyNk7QA Bill Burr, How to argue, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPi6WtcPljM Ck Lewis, desire discrepancy Patrice O'Neal Kinnison Bill Hicks Will we have to tip autonomous Ubers a repeating pattern: dna is complete blueprint each cell knows where he is within the blueprint so he knows how to build himself like, in a hierarchical society, each individual knows his position, and how to function forgiveness As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. Nelson Mandela forgiveness, see also the guy on Joe Rogan who was held by Somali pirates ahimsa forgiveness Sabai egoless, non-agency, non-free-will They killed out of hatred, jealousy, greed, fear, envy... Thomas Perry: Forty Thieves