• The diminished role of instinct in Man
  • Instinct is inflexible
  • Greater focus on acting our way through the world:
    • feeling (homeostasis function discussion from Mark Solms), +
    • high-level cognition when needed, +
    • Lots of fixed action patterns and heuristics
      • A heuristic is a cognitive fixed action patterns
      • Much of classic human power systems are based on installing and exploiting heuristics
        • This is particularly newly visible in the current AI wars of the early 2020s
      • Symbols: trigger lower-level emotional pathways (feelings)
      • Memes: packaged high-level argument
      • Heuristic: simplification of a calculation that is too expensive
• Big 5 Personality traits
• Intelligence
• Dunning-Kruger effect
  • Confidence and confidence misperception
  • Heuristics
• Memory (and the re-writing thereof)
  • Memories is a story we tell ourselves new every time
  • It is told from the perspective of the current point-of-view
    • Childhood stories vs. adult interpretations
• Gaslighting
• The decision wedge
• Free will