Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.757

   When I take that basic cognitive framework, which is this very dynamic, bottom-up, top-down way in which outside and grounding propositionality, which intelligibility is co-created with the world, I come to the conclusion that either that bottom-up, top-down dynamism is has nothing to do with ontological structure, in case in which in which case if there is no way in which that fundamental grammar of intelligibility creation touches the structure of ontology, then we're doomed to skepticism and solipsism. And so I propose that it's more likely, as the Neoplatonic tradition held, that reality i…

   yt/QvLSkzes_II-convergence-to-neoplatonism-w-wolfgang-smith/transcript.txt

2. 02 · yt0.756

   One is a set of instinctive, built-in behaviors and the other is a set of critics, which actually are associated with a culture or-- well, with culture and a tradition. And you learn from other people things that are good to do and things that are bad to do, and that's called the super ego. This is your set of values and standards and tests for suitable behavior. And the middle is this strange object called the ego, which is not what people think it is-- at least Freud's word. The ego is a kind of big neutral battleground where the instinctive behaviors-- I keep wanting to-- oh, you can see th…

   yt/6AS48fTXBBs-2-falling-in-love/transcript.txt

3. 03 · _intake0.756

   The group all went out to share some ideas afterward. More importantly, we were raising each other’s dopamine levels by sitting around a table communicating our thoughts and experiences from which we could all learn some things. Jack has such a high level of understanding and an even greater charisma that naturally draws people. I think that when someone lives in such a high quantum-yield environment and constantly works to boost his dopamine level, it becomes very apparent to others that he is living on a “different level” in some way; that the regular troubles and trifles of life are seen fo…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/reality-13-can-see-real-vermont-2017.md

4. 04 · blog0.756

   A proponent of the view that we are essentially persons in the present sense, however, may hold that practical considerations—such as the impossibility of drawing a clear line between sentient persons and sentient nonpersons, and the potential for abuse of the elderly—recommend the capacity for consciousness as the only safe line to draw, thereby vindicating the higher-brain view (Engelhardt 1996, 250). Meanwhile, other proponents of the view that we are essentially persons (e.g., Bartlett and Youngner 1988) apparently hold that any member of our species who retains the capacity for consciousn…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/the-definition-of-death.md

5. 05 · _intake0.754

   I think Dave’s version of reality generally jives with what most think and what is published in our scientific literature. But I think my response to him opened a discussion on choice, the paradox of choice, and how the human brain actually works compared to how most think it works. Moreover, because of this misunderstanding of how our brains really work from an evolutionary functional standpoint, there can be a mismatch that is in our blind spot. It is at the core why our neolithic brains allow us to make decisions that subjugate out paleolithic genes all too often. I use the reward theory of…

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/the-rewarding-feeling-of-safe-starches.md

6. 06 · yt0.754

   And then the the manner in which the lion is going to perceive the world or the manner in which we're going to perceive the world is going to be bounded by the operation of that motivational system, and the perception is going to be deemed sufficient if when we enact it, the motivational system is satiated. Fair enough? Okay. Okay, now, but then there's a there's a a more interesting issue that pertains to the big fitness payoff. So, if you look at how the nervous system is structured, you have these underlying motivational systems, which are goal-setting machines in which define the parameter…

   yt/SPnyxnvU4ko-is-reality-an-illusion-dr-donald-hoffman-ep-387/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.754

   - [Daniel] With exercise, it's the other one. The same is true, 'cause what you just said is when you listen to the point of view you disagree with long enough and earnestly enough that you understand it, you get a reward on the other side, but the reward actually increased the complexity and the accuracy of your thinking. There's a reward circuit on the chocolate cake side of this one, which is the reward circuit on quick certainty. - [Zubin] Being right. - [Daniel] Yeah. Certainty and sanctimony, and obviously, this is what our information environment is optimized towards right now. The Face…

   yt/_7aIgHoydP8-saving-civilization-healthcare-tech-democracy-w-daniel-schma/transcript.txt

8. 08 · _intake0.752

   Many people in the paleosphere call this area the mind/body connection, but I find this to be a misnomer. The mind is the sum total function of the central nervous system (CNS) and its endocrine secretion is called a thought. That secretion can directly upregulate DNA and RNA activity with gene expression and protein formation. This means that a thought has a tangible action. *** This ability is found in the biochemistry of the DHA molecule itself.***

   _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/brain-gut-5-paradigm-drifts-paradigm-shifts-epi-paleo.md

9. 09 · pubmed0.752

   In two recent papers, Paul Smolensky responds to a challenge Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn posed for connectionist theories of cognition: to explain the existence of systematic relations among cognitive capacities without assuming that mental processes are causally sensitive to the constituent structure of mental representations. Smolensky thinks connectionists can explain systematicity if they avail themselves of "distributed" mental representation. In facts, Smolensky offers two accounts of distributed mental representation, corresponding to his notions of "weak" and "strong" compositional …

   pubmed/PMID-2354612-connectionism-and-the-problem-of-systematicity-why-smolensky/info.md

10. 10 · _intake0.751

    Yes is the short answer, and that is why I took a jet plane plane up past the 63 parallel and climbed into a deep dark cold hole hole to see if I could overcome procrastination and increase my decision making acutely without using drugs like cycloset. Anyone who reads this blog knows that leptin sensitivity is directly tied to dopamine levels on a very basic level. ***If you are LR you, by definition, have an altered dopamine level in your brain, pure and simple. It also means at the core, your mitochondria just flat don’t work well when dopamine levels are poor.***

    _intake/kruse-blog-corpus/articles/the-dopamine-rx-good-choices-or-bad.md