Re: Mechanisms for learning
[{"sender": "jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]", "recipients": ["Joscha Bach"], "timestamp": "7/23/2016 8:41:23 AM", "subject": "Re: Mechanisms for learning", "body": "gender difference. unlikely motivational. every cell is different. size is different.\n\nthe more radical idea is that brains are the nucleus of the human cell: the body the membrane. the organism the collections and interactions of brains. wisdom of crowds. mirroring. etc. money used as signals. as is spoken language. what does social behavior mean, it is the coordination of indiv brains.\n\nI think that mathematics based thinking does not allow for censorship. money people concepts if they are all math, then political correctness and their structures are only subsets of a larger group of thoughts. its not emotional for me."}, {"sender": "Joscha Bach", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:02 AM", "subject": "Re: Mechanisms for learning", "body": "Some thoughts I meant to send back for a long time:\n\nno worry, if I understand correctly you are suggesting there are layers 1 through N. lets call them L1 - Ln. there are times T1-Tn and then conjecture that changing the time correlations (by genetic switch or other method), you might be able to make blacks smarter by changing the time for motor layer development and changing the time for other layers. like telomeres for the cell, are their equivalents for the layers. as you talked about culling the unused neurons in each layer, each neuron in each layer would get different (kill yourself if you are not being used instructions).\n\nExactly. I looked up the statistics, black kids in the US have slower cognitive development (and never catch up), which the study of course attributed to social factors without any evidence, and they had faster motor development! I suspect this means their brains are slower at learning high-level concepts, because the low-level structures are optimized for a shorter time. But they will keep the lead in motor development, because it is easier to learn, and they have more time and attention to practice once they get the structures in place.\n\nIt could also be that they have an additional set of learning directives in place that adapts them better to a more hunting/running style of life, whereas the Europeans had to adapt for identifying long-term seasonal patterns, delayed gratification for agriculture etc.\n\nand CONCEPTS could be layer to layer communication. are gender differences also a matter of time, and structure of interactions.\n\nI suspect gender differences are mostly motivational, i.e. we have a reward system for all the different social and cognitive needs, which makes us receive different kinds of pleasure and pain, thereby pay attention and learn. You cannot learn what does not attract your attention. Women tend to find abstract systems, conflicts and mechanisms intrinsically boring. Most women in computer science do not write programs because they enjoy solving puzzles, but because they want to help people, get approval etc. There are almost no women in math, because it does not help people or yield social attention."}]