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Brainwashing or Behavior Priming? Any difference in consequences?
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 19, 2020
Brainwashing or Behavior Priming? Any difference in consequences?
Note: Re-edit of “Any differences between behavior priming and brainwashing? June 28, 2012)
Have you submitted to a scrambled-sentence test? For example, rectify these sentences:
1. him was worried she always
2. from are Florida orange temperature
3. shoes give replace old the…
How quickly do you think you can work out each scrambled sentence?
Suppose among the ten scrambled sentences there are words such as worried, Florida, old, lonely, gray, bingo, wrinkle, forgetful…scattered throughout the sentences…Is there anything common among these words?
Undergraduate students participating in these tests, behaved for a short time as old people do after the test: They invariably walked slowly, back bent…
The unconscious Big Brain was picking up on these common denominator words, behind its locked door…
The unconscious mind got the clues and was telling the body of the test-taker: “We are in an environment that is concerned about old age. We better behave accordingly…”
The unconscious mind is acting as a mental valet, taking care of minor details to act accordingly, so that we can be freed to focus on the main problem at hand…
John Bargh experimented with two groups of undergraduate students.
Group One worked scrambled sentences sprinkled with words such as aggressively, bold, rude, bother, disturb, intrude, infringe…
Group Two worked with words like respect, consideration, appreciate, patiently, yield, polite and courteous…
After the test, each student had to walk the corridor to an office to meet with the principal researcher.
A confederate researcher was to block the entrance of the door and converse with the main researcher, a long and pretty boring conversation…
Group One subjects ended the conversation and barged into the office within 5 minutes. Group Two subject waited for the conversation to end before getting in.
Group Two students could have waited for much longer if the protocol was not set for only 10 minutes of conversation…
There are these mental clinical cases called ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain situated behind the nose.
When this part is damaged, the individual is unable of judgment and making decision.
The patient is functional, intelligent and highly rational but lacks judgment. For example, if the patient is asked to choose between two appointment dates, he will analyse and offer all kinds of pros and cons for 30 minutes and still be unable to decide on any date…
The mental valet is not working in this case to guide and orient the patient toward more important tasks at hand…
When mentioning a brainwashed mind, you visualize someone robbing a bank or doing violent acts without his full will, or being induced to describe details of his childhood against his will…
Maybe there is a subtle factor or a catalyst that shifts behavioral priming into the qualitative condition of brainwashing
I posit that brainwashing is very much like priming a brain, but done on successive and frequent occasions, verging on a continuous situation where the mental valet is working full-time and barely able to liberate the mind to focus on more important tasks to reflect on…
Think of totalitarian regimes of communism or the Catholic Church dominion in Europe for 9 centuries of the dark Middle Age period.
People had to navigate an environment of restrictions and limitation in ideas, opinions, objects, products, hair style, fashion…
The neuropsychology Benjamin Libet demonstrated that we become conscious of a decision half a second after our body gets prepared to react to a decision.
For example, the disparate “I” in our constitution and brain parts contribute to the decision. It is sort every single muscle has an “I”, our genetic constitution has an “I”, every section and network of neurons has an “I”.
All our “I” have to reach a working consensus before the body react and a decision can be carried out. Isn’t that how a skill is described?
Neuroscientist Patrick Haggard wrote: “When we talk of free-will, we mean the richness of the act, of our capacity of acting intelligently, of not reacting in the same manner to the same stimuli…”
You may read about the priming of the thief-program in the link of note 2.
Note 1: Article inspired from a chapter in “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell
Tidbits #40
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 19, 2020
Tidbits #40
Europe & China are two geo-economic adversaries of the USA. And this is where the “Financial parasites” injected this virus first.
Humans are naturally risk- and loss-averse. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman has shown that, in situations where the potential penalties outweigh the possible payoffs—like meeting friends who may or may not have Covid-19—most people will play it safe. (Stay home if it is Not a life/death situation)
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, warned against reopening the economy too soon, telling a Senate panel Thursday that communities doing so risk new coronavirus outbreaks.
Even though Covid-19 is a viral illness not affected by antibiotics, early data from hospitals shows that very high proportions of patients—more than 90 percent in some cohorts—are being treated with those drugs to cure or protect against secondary infections during respiratory illnesses or hospitalization.
Resistance to antibiotics is already a crisis: It causes an estimated 700,000 deaths around the world each year, almost four times the death toll from the novel coronavirus so far. –
Trump is angry with the World Health Organization, but on April 18, 2020, dozens of celebrities participated in the One World: Together at Home concert series, which raised $127 million for the World Health Organization’s Solidarity Response Fund. The series was hosted by Lady Gaga, and stars such as Lizzo, Celine Dion, and The Rolling Stones, all live-streamed performances from their homes.
In 1971, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and others took the stage at Madison Square Garden and raised over $10 million for relief efforts in cyclone-ravaged and war-torn Bangladesh. Organizers George Harrison and Ravi Shankar set into motion a unique form of fundraising that would have a huge impact on charitable organizations around the world.
The USA, China and Europe must find the necessary funds and training to all States ready to close down or reform these Saudi Kingdom funded Madrassas in the last 3 decades
I just read a sentence I wrote to my parents in 1997: “Respect yourself and keep walking. There is no right and wrong. The capital Sin is for not sticking to a comprehension to your question “what is the purpose for living” and advance with determination toward that goal”
For his promotion to a higher officer level, he invited 150 persons. The wife had to prepare a dozen dishes for 20 invitees every Friday and Saturday. No one to help the wife. You do the math the many welcoming parties.
In an interview for 60 Minutes yesterday, Fed chair Jerome Powell also said that the US economy could “easily” contract by 20-30%. and that low-income workers and women are taking the biggest hit. And employers will now offer lower salaries to people desperate for work.
In a settlement, the social network Facebook agreed to pay $52 million to thousands of US content moderators over mental health issues. The complaint was brought by moderators who said they operated in unsafe workspaces.
Jumia—Africa’s largest e-commerce platform (located in Kenia?)—reported a 7% decline in revenue despite seeing a four-fold increase in grocery orders.
The first step isn’t asking what task a robot can replace, but the reason humans do the task in the first place. —Jackie Bischof,
In 1861, the nation’s political body made it legal for citizens to mail privately-printed cards of less than one ounce to each other. Capitalizing on the new law, John P. Charlton and Hymen Lipman, printers in Philadelphia, moved to patent the first postal card in the country—a mostly blank card with a decorative border.
This class of 2020 may attend a virtual ceremony, take part in a drive-through graduation, or even listen to Barack Obama or Lil Nas X deliver televised commencement speeches
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US central bank is buying trillions of dollars of assets, including corporate bonds, to prevent the financial system from freezing up. The Fed’s buying spree reduced interest rates and is driving investors to take more risk.
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“We have such massive fiscal and monetary intervention,” Frederick said. ”In the absence of government intervention, the markets would be off a cliff.” —John Detrixhe,
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