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>In order to do this he'd have to have a microphone in every room in the world constantly recording. Why would he need that? I mean exactly what I said, he obs

>In order to do this he'd have to have a microphone in every room in the world constantly recording. Why would he need that? I mean exactly what I said, he observes things about things people have said or written that are usually overlooked, and exposes major problems with their dominant i reforestations. He also investigated these interpretations and hypothesizes about what biases might be leading to them. >I think you really mean he listens to someone for a little while and then decides, like Sherlock Holmes, he's heard all he needs to hear and the case is solved so to speak. No, I don’t mean this. I think you might find the book interesting, you seem to have some mistaken ideas about it. >At any rate evolutionary psychology, for all it's flaws, seems a much more compelling framework to try to understand humanity. Ok, this feels a bit like a non sequitur. Not sure the connection. However if you want to talk about evo psych, I will say that I think it really lacks in a mechanical explanation of psychology. And ironically suffers from the exact same problem you criticized this book for, that the claims are unprovable. What I mean is that it’s all very good to say “being a bastard was useful 10,000 years ago” but it tells us nothing about why some people develop these traits and others don’t. It’s like saying “it’s advantageous for programs to be bug free”. Great, I still know nothing about why some programs have bugs and others don’t.

staticman2 4y ago
My point is how do you know he listens to people more than they do? Maybe when I speak to him for 10 minutes I say "I feel nervous" and then when I go home I say "I feel brave" for 80 minutes? I don't tell him about anything I said at home. He only has access to things I tell him, things he overhears, or things he catches me say on video, right? So if most of the time I talk when he isn't present, how do you know he listens to me more than I do? Incidently I'm curiously what you think of this sentence: "“I had to write it in a car during stolen time in the middle of the woods or night, and eventually it took a global pandemeconium for me to Philip K. Dick the book during a manic week off just to get what you see here.”" Philip K Dick was famously mentally ill later in life and wrote a scrawling religious treatise about how a beam of light sent from God revealed to him the truths of the world. Dick also did things like write letters to the head of the CIA and throw them in the trash because had paranoid delusions about the cia going though his trash. Is Last Psychiatrist jokingly calling himself a crackpot?
- philosopher1234 4y ago
  Oh, I don’t mean that in his personal life he’s listening to people more than they are themselves (I wouldn’t know). I mean that’s what the book is. He shares excerpts from literature or media or behavior you may have seen yourself and draws your attention to portions of it that you probably have ignored before. So you don’t have to trust me about that, you can observe it in the book.

staticman2 4y ago

My point is how do you know he listens to people more than they do? Maybe when I speak to him for 10 minutes I say "I feel nervous" and then when I go home I say "I feel brave" for 80 minutes? I don't tell him about anything I said at home. He only has access to things I tell him, things he overhears, or things he catches me say on video, right? So if most of the time I talk when he isn't present, how do you know he listens to me more than I do? Incidently I'm curiously what you think of this sentence: "“I had to write it in a car during stolen time in the middle of the woods or night, and eventually it took a global pandemeconium for me to Philip K. Dick the book during a manic week off just to get what you see here.”" Philip K Dick was famously mentally ill later in life and wrote a scrawling religious treatise about how a beam of light sent from God revealed to him the truths of the world. Dick also did things like write letters to the head of the CIA and throw them in the trash because had paranoid delusions about the cia going though his trash. Is Last Psychiatrist jokingly calling himself a crackpot?

philosopher1234 4y ago
Oh, I don’t mean that in his personal life he’s listening to people more than they are themselves (I wouldn’t know). I mean that’s what the book is. He shares excerpts from literature or media or behavior you may have seen yourself and draws your attention to portions of it that you probably have ignored before. So you don’t have to trust me about that, you can observe it in the book.