The Chest-Magnanimity-Sentiment—these are the indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man. It may even be said that it is by this middle element that man is man; for by his intellect he is a mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal.
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This reminded me of Bayesians vs. Barbarians, with a new dimension added; it is not that the Barbarians gain from having less in their head, it is that the Bayesians lost because they forgot to develop their chests.
Feels like it’s getting at something real, but I’d be interested in checking how this grounds out in something physiologically real. What are the gears inside “develop your chest?”
I don’t have a solid sense of this yet, in large part because of how much of it is experiential.
I think I would count the 5-second level as gesturing in this direction; I also note the claim that HPMOR lets people ‘experience’ content from the Sequences instead of just read it. Some friends who did (old-style) boxing described it as calibrating their emotional reactions to danger and conflict in a way that seems related.
I’ve been experimenting with conceptualizing some of my long-standing dilemmas as questions of the form “does this desire have merit?” as opposed to something closer to “should I do A or B?”, but it’s too soon to see if that’s the right approach.
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Feels like it’s getting at something real, but I’d be interested in checking how this grounds out in something physiologically real. What are the gears inside “develop your chest?”
I don’t have a solid sense of this yet, in large part because of how much of it is experiential.
I think I would count the 5-second level as gesturing in this direction; I also note the claim that HPMOR lets people ‘experience’ content from the Sequences instead of just read it. Some friends who did (old-style) boxing described it as calibrating their emotional reactions to danger and conflict in a way that seems related.
I’ve been experimenting with conceptualizing some of my long-standing dilemmas as questions of the form “does this desire have merit?” as opposed to something closer to “should I do A or B?”, but it’s too soon to see if that’s the right approach.