B/G/D

All mental events are the inevitable consequences of antecedent causes. But the most important causes are your beliefs/goals/desires.

[Jonathan Nez @NezForAZ]

Had a great evening in Whiteriver, AZ, with folks from the White Mountain Apache Tribe. It was great to see the turn out and to talk to many of you!

[Jonathan Nez @NezForAZ]

Hardworking Americans shouldn’t be getting squeezed while the wealthy keep pulling further ahead.

I sat down with a Jabarha, a local barber and owner of Kuttz Barbershop who put it plainly: it feels like Americans are ripping off Americans.

[Jonathan Nez @NezForAZ]

Proud to have Sec. Pete Buttigieg in this Fight with Us. Let’s Warrior Up and Flip AZ-02!

[Hopium Chronicles @HopiumChron]

@SimonWDC with @NezForAZ, former President of the Navajo Nation and our candidate fighting to flip AZ-02.

[Jonathan Nez @NezForAZ]

Grateful to have spent time with small business leaders today.

Behind every storefront is a family, a dream, and a commitment to our community. Listening to their challenges and ideas helps us make better decisions.

I am here to listen and act.

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

#healthcare #universalhealthcare #selfrespect

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

Does #freewill come with #age? #determinism

[Jonathan Nez @NezForAZ]

We’re organizing everywhere and now there’s a place to tap in for all Warriors!

Follow @TeamNezHQ for campaign updates, volunteer opportunities, and ways to help our efforts!

Let’s get to work. #WarriorUp 💪🏽

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

Is there any reason to want #freewill ? Spoiler 🚨: NO! #determinism #psychology

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

Your B/G/D determine your decisions #freewill #determinism #indeterminism #indeterminacy

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

#intuition #freewill #determinism

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

#hotcognition #freewill #feelings

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

On happiness and meaningfulness:

Overall, across the world, there’s reason to believe that happiness has increased, for obvious reasons: people are living longer, they’re less poor, they’re better educated, and so on. So that would suggest, but not prove, that there has not been a decline in meaningfulness. It’s still possible. But just anecdotally, there have been complaints that life is meaningless as far back as you go. You know, Ecclesiastes: “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Henry David Thoreau, in 1854: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Now, how a guy living in a cabin on a pond could know this is unclear, but that was the perception. T.S. Eliot: “We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men,” 1920s. Starting in the 50s, there was a great fear of alienation—that was the big issue. And part of the counterculture was how suburban middle-class life was meaningless and empty and plastic and artificial. The Pursuit of Loneliness, a 1970 bestseller by Philip Slater; Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech in the late 1970s. So it’s a constant complaint. So the fact that people say it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true.

Full interview with @HumanProgress below.

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

Cn the mind change synaptic weights? #brain #freewill #emergentproperty

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

Gut #feelings and #intuition #freewill

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

What makes you, you? #SelfAwareness #determinism #freewill

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

#unconscious #consciousness #freewill

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

My former grad student, @AdamOmaryPhD recounts his experience researching the third rail of gender dysphoria at Harvard. "Ironically, the Republican movement that eagerly cited the possibility that some gender dysphoria involves social contagion and prior mental health issues was now defunding the science that tested those very hypotheses. Meanwhile, the progressives within the academy who made my daily life difficult never actually stopped my work. The liberal institution of Harvard protected my right to do it... Academic freedom is embattled but alive." https://t.co/aAk9gzst2T via @BostonGlobe

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

@WiringTheBrain

[B/G/D @neurophile2016]

What is free about #freewill? #determinism #psychology #neuroscience