Janelle Yapp

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In my way of thinking, radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant. These don’t always surface in awareness to the point one is actually choosing -- often they live in a cloud of aversion that strategically obscures the tradeoff.
How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions
This area is also known to play a crucial role in self–other distinctions processes and theory of mind (ToM).[2] Furthermore, damage to the TPJ has been implicated in having adverse effects on an individual's ability to make moral decisions and has been known to produce out-of-body experiences (OBEs).
Temporoparietal junction - Wikipedia
This idea comes from the Feynman method, which makes you explain a topic to yourself to reveal what you're missing to to really master it. It works great for the original purpose, but I also find it useful to rekindle the flame of my curiosity.
Dealing with Curiosity-Stoppers — LessWrong
Here the strategy is obvious: force myself. More concretely, I have a TAP such that when I feel the excuse of tiredness, I need to push myself to do the thing for at least 5 minutes. By that point, I'll usually have encountered at least one small discovery, and sure of my ability to find more, my curiosity will be back. In the rare case where I cannot stand even 5 minutes, I'm either exhausted or reading a very boring thing. Both cases imply that I should stop.
Dealing with Curiosity-Stoppers — LessWrong
A person driven primarily by curiosity is so in love with the world that they want to become a perfect reflection of it. And to do that, you put your perceptions of the world in dialog, not with yourself, but with your other perceptions of the world.
Catching the Spark — LessWrong
At the synapse level, two classes of phenomena can be distinguished: homosynaptic metaplasticity and heterosynaptic metaplasticity. Metaplasticity is homosynaptic when the priming synaptic activity regulates subsequent plasticity only at those same synapses. In contrast, heterosynaptic metaplasticity occurs when plasticity is regulated for a range of synapses terminating on a postsynaptic neuron, regardless of whether they were activated by the priming activity. While metaplasticity has been demonstrated in a variety of species, including Aplysia and human, and brain regions, the most extensiv…
Metaplasticity - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Meliorism (Latin melior, better) is the idea that progress is a real concept and that humans can interfere with natural processes in order to improve the world.
Meliorism - Wikipedia
Do not ask an encyclopedia to tell you about the world. Do not think harder and longer, waiting for something to emerge from the implications of your existing beliefs. Instead, seek out opportunities to encounter crucial data. Directly expose your own sensorium to reality. Become intimate with the territory.
Catching the Spark — LessWrong
Pure curiosity is about your reflection of the world. Although it tends to take the world piece by piece, it does not fundamentally rest on a desire to know a particular thing for a particular practical purpose. It does not feel like, “If only I knew this, then I could accomplish that.” Instead, it feels like, “I must fill this hole in my knowledge, or I will be forever incomplete.”
Catching the Spark — LessWrong
Only he’s not just sitting there. He’s moving around, singing along, and twirling his drumsticks. He hasn’t even started and he’s already so alive.
Catching the Spark — LessWrong
For dichotic listening LQs, there was a significantly higher right ear advantage in males compared to females indicating stronger left-hemispheric language lateralization
A large-scale estimate on the relationship between language and motor lateralization | Scientific Reports
Furthermore, sex differences seem to be present in language lateralization when the power of the study is adequate suggesting that endocrinological processes might influence this phenotype.
A large-scale estimate on the relationship between language and motor lateralization | Scientific Reports