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014: Tis Better to Give than to Receive
Jun. 30th, 2021 03:46 pmWhen I was a kid, I always hated the expression that cropped up for about a month every year. Is that so? Great, then give me my presents, you can thank me later. Wise Men come bearing gifts, and children get fewer and fewer every Christmas until their output matches their input and we start to wonder why we didn’t just buy all this garbage for ourselves.
I’ll admit, once you get the whole prefrontal cortex thing figured out, the concept seems to pass the sniff test, but I was always at a loss to explain why without just falling back on circular parent-logic—because it’s the right thing to do and I said so. It’s only taken me a little over three decades, but I think I may have found a less-lame perspective. A cold, calculated explanation in terms of systems theory and an ecology of mind that even the most selfish, sniveling snotdripper would have a hard time denying without just “saying so.”
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I’ll admit, once you get the whole prefrontal cortex thing figured out, the concept seems to pass the sniff test, but I was always at a loss to explain why without just falling back on circular parent-logic—because it’s the right thing to do and I said so. It’s only taken me a little over three decades, but I think I may have found a less-lame perspective. A cold, calculated explanation in terms of systems theory and an ecology of mind that even the most selfish, sniveling snotdripper would have a hard time denying without just “saying so.”
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