Perhaps one reason we do complicated things naïvely is that we do not notice when circumstances change. Perhaps many of our maladaptive feelings are ones we formed for a different world. Is canalaization an important concept for meditation?
Incoming
- The Canal Papers - by Scott Alexander about Carhart-Harris et al. (2023)
- Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality. TODO: raid for refs, and then talk about this in the context of interpersonal dynamics. NB I think this phenomenon is interesting but I wish he did not use sloppy Bayesian terminology in this case; it sounds like he is talking about an excessively tight prior, but the dynamics of this case diverge in substantive ways from a direct Bayesian update with an excessively tight prior. One would need some more complicated structure to explain the observation, such as a hierarchical model incorporating observation reliability, or an action-observation loop.
- What is Love? Neural Annealing in the Presence of an Intentional Object | Qualia Computing
- Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning
- Jiminy Cricket Must Die
- DRMacIver’s Notebook: Emotional reactions as legacy code
- DRMacIver’s Notebook: Your emotions are valid but probably wrong
- The Replacing Guilt series
See also the problem of growing up.
References
Carhart-Harris, R. L., S. Chandaria, D. E. Erritzoe, A. Gazzaley, M. Girn, H. Kettner, P. A. M. Mediano, et al. 2023. “Canalization and Plasticity in Psychopathology.” Neuropharmacology 226 (March): 109398.
Carhart-Harris, R. L., and K. J. Friston. 2019. “REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics.” Pharmacological Reviews 71 (3): 316–44.
Clark, James E., Stuart Watson, and Karl J. Friston. 2018. “What Is Mood? A Computational Perspective.” Psychological Medicine 48 (14): 2277–84.
Petri, G., P. Expert, F. Turkheimer, R. Carhart-Harris, D. Nutt, P. J. Hellyer, and F. Vaccarino. 2014. “Homological Scaffolds of Brain Functional Networks.” Journal of The Royal Society Interface 11 (101): 20140873.
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