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@lemmy.mlhttps://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/gabor-mat-in-the-munro-family-revelations-i-see-the-familiar-story-of-trauma/article_04c50728-408f-11ef-8aa4-7341bd73cc30.html
“Apparently the intuitive, intimate, empathetic understanding of the human psyche that often illuminates Alice Munro’s art was, to a significant extent, denied to herself, and became, in turn, denied to
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/askers-vs-guessers/340891/
I was curious about how one can begin to understand their child's sense of ToM. I've felt like my child is maybe a bit above the curve in terms of mental development (he is already capable of saying maybe 50-60 words, including names of 5 people and one dog, at 18 months old. He can also combine words to make contextually appropriate statements (for example: if I'm getting my coat on, he might say "daddy bye-bye" as if to say "Dad is leaving"). If he doesn't see his mother he might just say "mom-mom?" while raising his arms in the universal "who knows?" position—or he will say "mom-mom gone". I've been around several 18mos and it seems atypical to me that they're capable of these things so early.
Well today he did something interesting. When he sits on the potty he likes to read a book, and just a few minutes ago I closed the door so I could go to the bathroom, and he slid a book under the bathroom door. Is it just automatic? Or is he forming some prototypical sense of "I like to read when I'm on the toilet, so I'll bring one for him since he is on the toilet"?
Edit: I seem to have riled up some negative emotions in the readers on this community, for what reason I have no idea, but for what it's worth: I'm not trying to just brag about my child. If he's average that's awesome. I'm just trying to give context on what I see my kid does and use that to maybe try to understand how his mind works. It's a fascinating subject to me.
https://drdeenz.com/sociopath-test-antisocial-personality-disorder/
Do I have a sociopathic personality? Deenz sociopath test can help determine whether you may have symptoms of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/aldous-huxleys-deep-reflection/
Huxley was a very special kind of expert witness to his own unusual states of consciousness, which he actively cultivated in the service of his writing.
https://piped.video/watch?v=U93x9AWeuOA
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
We are familiar with the social "id" through mob dynamics, crowd control. But is there anything akin to the ego and superego for society or groups? Maybe the media act as a bit of a superego on societies...but maybe the concept just does not extend that easily.
Would fight or flight kick in with their behavior in avoiding the critical deepest (crash-causing, lost-data) software component name and identity? If the mistakes in such programming languages were causing multiple independent servers to melt down in CPU overload?
Can media machines traumatize developers, if there are extreme dehumanization contents and pornography stored in that back-end critical component? If the avoided programming language and logical errors in their own responsibilities utilized the word "TRIGGER" (programming syntax), could that induce social anxiety behavior?
Lately I have been hearing the term "cognitive dissonance" being used a fair amount. I am checking my understanding of it so please bare with me and feel free to correct me if I am wrong. My understanding of the term is that it refers to someone who continues to hold on to their core beliefs despite overwhelming incontrovertible evidence that their beliefs are patently wrong.
https://www.vipshek.com/blog/interaction
This 100-year-old binary classification of human interaction holds us back. It's time to move past it.