Friday, May 26, 2017

Five observations

1. Does the Godel Incompleteness Theorem apply to psychology? Can a system describe itself? Can we ever really be truly self reflective and fully understand ourselves?

 2. There is what I call a "fatal flaw" in the human mind. Because our minds are limited, we must optimize our decision making process. This involves assumptions that can be exploited, much like optical illusions can trick the vision, or visual processing.

 3. It is possible that the internet, video, cell phone, and personal computer has already made current government structures obsolete. What sorts of organizations will replace them?

 4. Eventually the Catholic Church will own all wealth on Earth. Currently it is the most wealthy institution in the world. Institutions never divest their wealth voluntarily, they just continue to grow. Humans and families divest their wealth when they die, but institutions never divest their wealth and they just continue to grow. Eventually a single institution will grow so large that it will own all the wealth on Earth. That institution may be the Catholic Church, or it may be some other institution.

 5. Depression is a social disease that manifests itself in the physical symptoms of individual people. Depression in individuals is caused by maladaptive social organization that exploits these individuals without any real social rewards like recognition, status, influence, comfort, touch, or nutrition. Babies in Romanian orphanages that get no attention will die for no reason at all, except lack of attention.

(from comments on the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drv3BP0Fdi8&google_comment_id=z13yh3e4kr2bv3k5e04cglvg4njmixa4jtk0k  )

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William Schaeffer

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