What's the ultimate goal of your efforts?
Do you believe in free will?
[redacted]: "Sorry to rather shoddily turn the topic
But so you just always research stuff??? You interest in learning just feels really multifaceted"
ADAM GOLDING: "lol I was the president of CASA
interdisciplinarity was my official responsibility"
[redacted]:"What's the ultimate goal of your efforts. I see the attempt to spread knowledge and create situations of dialogue between folks.
Casa?"
ADAM GOLDING: "I don't work backwards from unitary goals, consider:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
I test various heuristics against each other in parallel, more than I can verbalize
The Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence Student's Association”
[redacted]: "I see that makes sense.
What aim do you see these many goals heading toward
What purpose"
ADAM GOLDING: "I had to get psych students to care about linguistics, linguistic students to care about philoophy, philosophy to care about computer science, computer science to care about psychology etc.
I don't have that kind of reductive mindset, I'm also polytheist
there is no unifying purpose, purpose is inherently poly"
[redacted]: "Okay what would your top 5 goals be
Mhmm, does it just make you happy to spread knowledge and understand the world?"
ADAM GOLDING: "the goal is for goals to be the exception, not the rule"
[redacted]: "If you had to summarize your life's philosophy post-humously what do you think it would be, in a few sentences"
ADAM GOLDING: "I do not explore so I can hunt, I hunt so can explore
*so I can explore
ah I sense you're looking 4 this: https://adamgolding.substack.com/p/rules-01?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
also see the 10 anarchist polytheistic commandments I generated with AI: https://adamgolding.substack.com/p/the-polytheistic-religion-of-anarchism?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
But my natalism is personal I'm not sure if I endorse religious natalism or
this is pretty core: https://www.facebook.com/adamgolding/posts/pfbid02S6oK2wJdQ25TcQbDuzTDdg4RsWTMwYXg847FPhnv3edJb5BUcDZZkYJoTJMVh5Fil
premature framing is what makes insight problems hard to solve -- I can't have creative lines of thought with people who get anxious without imposing an interpretation on everything as they go
as in meditation they teach people to inhibit verbalization, the monkey mind, in connection with goodhart's law we can inhibit the hunter instinct and exploration exists beneath that -- goals only sometimes emerge from free association etc.
I believe also in the link between freudian free association as a confessional creative method and freedom of association politically
"Adam Phillips suggests that 'the radical nature of Freud's project is clear if one imagines what it would be like to live in a world in which everyone was able - had the capacity - to free-associate, to say whatever came into their mind at any given moment...like a collage'.[27]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_(psychology)
[redacted]: "Mhmm I've heard of this
Thanks for sharing, it's an interesting way to be in the world."
ADAM GOLDING: "it was my science project in grade 6
there was only one grade 4 girl so people could tell from the data that this girl had said 'sex' when I said 'sports' and I was ordered to redact my results--from that moment, I was hooked on science, and especially on psychoanalysis, and I'm convinced it's systematically censored just like the censor of freudian theory
I think very few school science projects are so revealing that they need to be censored, lol
UofT repressed its own subconscious structurally by kicking all the psychoanalysts out of the psych department into another program, and in CASA people got real uncomfortable when I started to get psychoanalytically real with them
now a psych prof can lecture safely with no one testing to see if the theory applies to the theorist giving the lecture
most are more comfortable in their dissociation from their childhoods, their bodies, or from sex or violence or other censored drives, that they react with hostility to anything which draws attention to that which they hope to ignore
there is a theory that childhood amnesia is just causally continuous with other mechanisms of dissociation later in life etc.
eg that psychoanalysis explains childhood amnesia
through trauma and dissociation and the freudian censor
our political and emotional overton windows are shrunk by this process enabling our political repression
without freedom of feeling and freedom of association, with are essentially doomed to mass slavery of the emotions, brave new world style
I was deeply shocked by that book in gr 11 later, and abandoned hedonism at that time, so your question about what makes me 'happy' is not actually going to tell you about my sense of purpose
oh psychedeics were repressed for very similar reasons
psychedelics and psychoanalysis that is--they are threatening in very similar ways
esp as both can unlock childhood memories and repressed trauma, some which our culture function on, eg our mass awareness of apartheid subconscioisly, both here and in gaza
on natalism, peterson at least won this debate, even rosie agreed, lol:
[redacted]: Do you believe in free will
Or determinism
ADAM GOLDING: "I was just posting about this because sapolsky was making the rounds"
[redacted]: "Yeah...I was just thinking that
ADAM GOLDING:" https://www.facebook.com/adamgolding/posts/pfbid037851iG56mhoNTxMQJr4SQapBb66wzqmsCDatAXSd3AMcj9zSRNtE3xgk5a5psBuYl "
[redacted]: "Two separate people sent him to me"
ADAM GOLDING: "I put this comment on every interview
this paper sapolsky never even mentions: https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/2183622
tony blair also didn't know it when he wrote isaiah berlin on his death bed
a symptom of disciplinary segregation... which it was my mission to fight as casa president, lol
basically it's a function of variables, not 1 or 2, so most debates are hopelessly confused
*three variables "
[redacted]: "Read the first link"
ADAM GOLDING: "u mean this one?
the landmark maccallum article is summarized here in section 4:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/#OneConLibFreTriRel
"One Concept of Liberty: Freedom as a Triadic Relation"
sapolsky has not read this stuff, as far as I can tell, and neither have the philosophers he argues with, since they're in philosophy of mind etc, not political philosophy"