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Thanks for sharing this. I’m glad you feel better

Consciousness is a word we use to describe our sense of experience. To use the word “create” isn’t really apt at all.

😂😂😂😂 Yeah, I needed it too. I’m still trying to find an audio recording of it!

I will admit: the idea that consciousness exists outside of the body is difficult to disprove. This is the essence of agnosticism. But as of yet, we cannot assert that matter does not create consciousness. The latter is as unprovable as the former. Just because we do not know how the brain creates consciousness, does not mean that it doesn’t.

Your comment seems to contradict. You state that “the first thing that arises from potential energy is awareness”. However, you also state that “matter does not produce consciousness”. But is not matter potential energy?

@@TWMoore I don't see potential as matter. Potential is just that. What materializes first from potential is awareness.

@@TWMoore to be transparent, my understanding that all is based in consciousness came via some profound Ayahuasca ceremonies in Peru some years ago. Since then, my path and experiences have only reinforced this knowing. Advaita Vedanta/Hinduism express this notion as does Hinduism and Budhism. Shrodinger and Max Planck both were huge proponents that our reality arises in consciousness.

There is still mental activity, but you are correct in saying that there is to explicit reflexive awareness of it (subjectivity).

There’s a very real paradox here. Most people in the helping industries are motivated by the desire to ease suffering. But pity in the therapy room is ineffective. Placing responsibility on the client for suffering can appear unempathetic, pain is real. But the expression of suffering by a client is a manipulation, malingering. While this is a social tool that even the well use in situations of oppression, if overused it leads to even further social disempowerment and a resulting increase of suffering. The clinician must demonstrate this paradox (which is largely too nuanced for words) such that a learning occurs in the client. Psychological learning represents material alterations in the brain. This means that although protracted suffering (diagnosable psychiatric conditions) corresponds to specific brain markers, interpersonal learning can change the material of the brain such that the state of suffering or cognitive malfunction lifts. All of this must be done carefully by the clinician (who acts as if they “know”) so as to avoid an air of condescension. The importance of Szasz’s work today is that he presents an alternative perspective to mainstream dialogue about mental health. Thanks for your comment!

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I wouldn’t recommend taking advice from people. It’s only slightly less dangerous than giving it 🙏🏼

@@TWMoore ok don’t jump off cliffs without a parachute, is that dangerous advice?

Perhaps then, it has 100 meanings. Making it quite meaningful 🙏🏼

@@TWMoore bruh are you on fucking cocaine? That’s not how the English language works nor is it how legal terms work

All information is mis 🙏🏼

Interesting question. Based on the experience of recovering cult members, it is often emotional intimacy, empathy, or vulnerability (interpersonal connection) with an outsider that can open up an individual to new ways of thinking. Psychotherapy would attempt to create such an intimate bond such that new learning would occur. However, an individual would not be moved to change in such a way unless they were faced with a significant interruption in their environment that introduced cognitive and emotional conflict.

Yeah, I don’t think we have souls.

@@TWMoore 🤔 now iam worry 😂.

So is happiness 🙏🏼

Well put. Thank you for your comment. Viewing religion through the lens of attachment theory is a very enlightening perspective. The question becomes: How is the individuation of child from parent reflected in religious philosophy?

Wow. I haven’t read these numbers and calculations in so long. How do you think Bible eschatology relates to extremism?

By my calculation, the prophecy is already a year late, but I will bet you $1000 that it does not come true anytime soon.

Glad it was helpful!

Good video once again. Thanks!

I kinda like it 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@TWMoore The music was good. I could hear you well over the music and it flowed well.

Yes, Adler was also an existentialist thinker so there are some similarities

Thanks for your comment

That is their perspective, yes.

An extremist is sometimes the crackpot who thinks his delusional beliefs are profound truth.

There could be some restructuring of neural processes based on the plasticity induced by the inter subjective field of the client therapist dyad. See my video on right brain psychotherapy. The evidence base suggests that psychotherapy changes the material of the brain, even without touch.

Yeah. Cycle breaking is challenging. This is where I see the value of short term psychiatric interventions…to reduce physiological symptoms while an individual is attempting to change the way they present so as to affect change in their social environment. It’s a monumental undertaking.

I also subscribe to a very trauma-based model when it comes to my understanding of human psychology. I wonder if Szasz talked about the role (childhood) trauma plays in mental illness?

Sounds like a good time 🎉

Thanks for your comment. She’s had plenty of criticism for it.

Thanks for your comment! Surely there is a spectrum.

All sectarian religions are cults. Some non-sectarian religions fall outside of that, like Taoism and non-religious Buddhism. But practically all religions with an esoteric ideological infrastructure are cults.

The last example you present would be considered an obsession. Extreme, yes. But not connected to reinforcement from an extremist group. Thanks for your comment!

Glad it was helpful! Thanks 🙏🏼

I think Allan Schore is a complete genius! Getting to grips with this theory and his academic work. Really helped bring clarity to my earliest childhood experiences. Such a pivotal piece of work, that I think it’s very underrated in today’s world. The difference to object relations, & thus attachments would make a huge difference to our lives. Great video!

@@davidkuharich9269 I mean, he has his edges. But it’s his Dad you gotta watch out for.

This is a silly and irresponsible lie, and you know it. It also makes it evident that you are an extreme right wing person, so you are right in the middle of one of the cults they are talking about. Can you admit it? Of course not. You don’t have the intelligence or courage to do that.

Thanks so much!!

@@TWMoore keep up the great work and please increase producing such videos. And my apologies for my language, I'm not a native English speaker😊

Glad it was helpful!

Plenty of members of extremes groups are well fed. However, physiological factors always play a role in cognition. Additionally, genetic factors can predispose an individual to depression, and anxiety leaving an opportunity for exploitation by the powerful.

@@TWMoore There's been a revolution in epigenetics, not so much genetics, over the past 20 years. Back when I worked on the Human Genome Project in the early 1990s the canon was that most of DNA was _junk,_ but it isn't. It comprises the control structures that determine which protein-coding genes are expressed due to environment, including _in utero._ Robert Sapolsky points out that political affiliation is 70% heritable (not inheritable). I don't know exactly what that means, but I think the details of politics would be barking up the wrong gum tree anyway. As a cognitive linguist/scientist I'm looking for the underlying mechanism, which is only peripherally related to actual ideology, too indirect to draw conclusions. What I think generally is that there are different modes, which I oversimplify to two. One is for times of plenty, and optimal survivability involves generosity and coöperation. The other for times of hardship involves authoritarianism. _E.g._ diet does not determine but motivates the mode. This is consistent with _e.g._ Axelrod's work with The Prisoners' Dilemma. The optimal solution for personal profit is Tit for Tat biased toward forgiveness, but even people who understand the math try to cheat, even when there is real money involved. There is also the fairly recent discovery that oxytocin enhances in-group nurturing and also hostility to other groups, which is interesting.

Have you read Johnathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind? He roots political leanings in pre-conscious valence, a subtle approach/avoid tendency. This is likely determined by early childhood experience (programmed in the developing pre-affective brain) and social reinforcement at the biological level in the form of subconscious amygdalic reaction to rejection threat by the dominant value system. This very subtle approach/avoid dichotomy, when brought to awareness in explicit consciousness, can be a jumping off point for moderating oneself. However, I believe it can be muted by social contagion.

@@TWMoore Yes I have. Haidt has much improved over the decades, but I generally prefer sources with more detailed neuroscience and epigenetics. Childhood experience is not the only factor-separated-at-birth studies show similar results, suggesting significant _in utero_ effects. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find more specific results than _stress hormones_ in general. My own computer simulations suggest that there is something going on with the attention and focus mechanisms of the frontal gyrus. There are only a few things that can pay attention to at once. When some are devoted to _e.g._ things to be afraid of, there are fewer for _e.g._ language. Thus, the brain is less good at understanding puns and sarcasm and less able to look for ways to interpret speech in good faith. Some of the right temporal gyrus is affected as well, especially Wernicke's area, but it is unclear whether this is a direct effect or indirect because of how Broca's area, to implement predictive coding, uses the arcuate fasciculus to test hypotheses about expressing language. When people chant slogans, it seems to me this is reduced, and people operate on what Maureen Mullarkey (great name) calls _ideological microcode._ Please note that I do not find enough evidence to map this onto any particular ideology, but it clearly does map onto rationalism.

Or is that an obsessive?

Interesting. Thanks for your comment! Care to elaborate?

@TWMoore Its funny It's coming from someone who finally understands that God does exist through the transcendental argument. And given man's flawed nature that's self destructive on his own according(even through an evolutionary lense), there is a universal 'fallen nature of man' in which only God can save us from, which is why Christ having to come down to bridge the human condition back to the God of objective reality makes sense, that the gospel is that the IS of material existence is aligned with the ultimate SHOULD (will of God in accordance with His creation) I go into these religious circles, especially with evangelical Christianity, and in all honesty there's this culture of willful ignorance or bombastic arrogance that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, especially as everyone becomes more atomized online and have titles like "many Christians will go to hell". It's a sick self destructive cycle of destruction in the community of ever increasing sectarianism that'll only get worse as long as the internet is there. There are some sane voices in the ocean of insanity I personally appreciate, Paul Vanderklay, Micheal Heiser, Tattooed Theist, ect. I'm down to talk more in detail if you want

It seems to me that the arrogance comes from the assumption that there is only one transcendental perspective. If the “is” is the current material situation, the “ought/should” is the creative movement of the individual toward a transcendental perspective that is comprehensive to suffice for their lived experience.

Thanks for your comment! What’s a grand Ricky master?