#Cognitive Control

[raffaellopalandri]

The Nexus of Growth: Unpacking Discipline and Consistency Through Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science

The architecture of sustained self-improvement is not erected upon sporadic bursts of motivation, but rather upon the foundational congruence of two seemingly disparate yet intrinsically interwoven constructs: discipline and consistency. Photo by Leeloo The First on Pexels.com These are not merely instrumental virtues, but ontologically significant states of being that, when cultivated,…

[afterthelambs]

I'm not sure if I believe the "Wakaba Isshiki did unethical experiments" theory in the fandom, but I do think this is the biggest proof of it in-game:

Because how the hell would she know that?

The first explanation is that she did experiments by sending people into palaces and then testing what happens to them if the palace collapses. Which is messed up for obvious reasons.

The second explanation is that she did NOT test it, meaning she was just making shit up. Which is funny but also would make her a terrible scientist. This explanation is less believable because everything else about her research is too accurate.

There's also a theory that Wakaba did unethical experiments on Akechi specifically. I'm not sure I believe that, since the evidence for it is pretty shallow (like the featherman game scientist experimenting on grey pigeon). But this scene is once again the biggest argument you could make for that theory. The researcher in the image above refers to palaces by their correct term 'palaces', which they say was based on Wakaba's research. But that's only something you would know with firsthand experience of the metaverse. And the only person they know who could access the metaverse was Akechi (that we know of, but i dont think Shido would rely only on Akechi if there were other options).

So yeah this scene is very sus. It's most likely the writers didn't think too deep about the implications. There's no way they wanted Futaba's mom to be sketchy, right? But even if it's not intentional, the scenes and their implications still exist. So in conclusion those theories make sense, I get it, and I don't blame anyone for headcanoning them and having fun. And tbh anyone involved with cognitive psience was portrayed as some degree of unethical (maruki for example), maybe this is just on-brand

[disability-kitties]

Antisocial Personality Disorder Kitty mock up design

Designer: @alexandraisyes

Flag Design: @aspdsolace

This Kitty is part of our Personality Disorder and Neurodivergent series!

[vaguely-concerned]

there's a self-help/mental health adjacent post that's going around and it seems to be really helpful for a lot of people which is very good. I also personally hate it with all my fucking heart

[chicago-geniza]

Need to shower and do laundry before the talk this evening but unfortunately I'm cemented to the spot staring at a fixed point in space obsessively ruminating over all the circumstances in which people must have contracted and died of UTIs before the advent of antibiotics

[theokusgallery]

Hi I hope this isn't weird or uncomfortable or anything but I've seen you talk about empathy a bit before and you don't really feel it normally, right? It just stuck out to me because I also am like that and I've never actually met anyone else before who admitted to it and like, IDK, I guess I wanted to say that I like, see you. You can answer this ask privately if you want (or not at all IDC)

Aw, man. Yeah, that's something I'm loud about specifically because "admitting to it" makes some people label you a Bad Person™ despite 1) the concept of bad people being nonsensical in the first place, 2) it being something that's fundamentally innate and that I can't exactly change. It took me over a decade to come to terms with the fact that it didn't make me a monster so I kinda just. want people around me to know it's okay not to have emotional empathy and it doesn't mean they're predestined to kill people or whatnot. Not having empathy has become normal to me (as opposed to. having been a ~Shameful Thing~ I ~Needed to Hide~ before, I mean) so I'm specifically vocal about it to let other people know it's chill lmao

Gonna dump this here for whoever sees this who isn't aware before I get screamed at about kindness:

There are different types of empathy — grossly, there's emotional empathy (I feel what you feel, the ability to mirror someone's emotions automatically → one might cry because they see someone crying even without knowing the context, for instance) and cognitive empathy (being able to tell, based on logical reasoning, what someone feels → This person is crying, therefore I think that they are sad).

While emotional empathy is something that is typically innate according to most research, cognitive empathy comes up later on and is acquired, in big part during early childhood. Cognitive empathy is something you can (and sometimes need to) work on and improve, contrary to emotional empathy in most cases. It's sometimes called "theory of mind" in developmental science as well!

Compassion, on the other hand, is the conscious act of comforting someone, supporting them, or accompanying them in their emotions. Empathy isn't a prerequisite to being compassionate, neither does it make it inherently easier or more likely.

[mantisgodsdomain]

Any opinions on human domestication guide? I feel like some of the pieces for it might appeal to you with the whole yes kink no sex aspect of them

That's the, uhh, plant people domesticating humans setting, right? We aren't 100% familiar with it but we've seen enough to know that the narrative treatment is solidly... really, really not for us. Dan is more familiar with it than us, but from what we've seen, we're very inclined to just opt out of it - the narrative treatment of the actual domestication process treats it way too much like a good thing for us to be capable of being comfortable with it, and it has a sort of, like, lack of awareness of itself that throws it from "could be cool" solidly into squick territory.

Listen, we love a good bit of domestication and loss of autonomy, but the way that a lot of the narrative we've seen treats it is... awful, honestly, leaves us feeling like we need to get a good drink to get the taste of it out of our mouth, and it's not even something that we can fully verbalize because it's something in the higher framework and the treatment and execution of tropes that is really goddamn hard to explain without a five thousand word essay, and we don't want. To read enough of it to do that.

It feels bad to read. It is the unfortunate combination of "kink that's close enough to what we generally enjoy that it feels like something we should like but makes us want to cringe out of our skin in practice" that has gotten it and derivative works recommended to us and we just get immediately turned off by the narrative treatment. It's not... great. We are going to turn to Dan's opinion for this since we can't get past a few chapters on even derivative works and he has far more tolerance for this stuff.

It would be different if it had more of, the, like, self awareness of other works - the knowing of the author that what is being done is awful, even if the work itself takes place in a universe where that would not be a consideration. The first chapter's treatment of humanity is uncomfortable. The further treatment of humans and their domestication pushes that discomfort further, and it feels like the author thinks this domestication is a good thing - that it's a net gain for humanity to be enslaved. It treats it, narratively, like a utopia that people are resisting for no good reason, and that's...

There's a reason we prefer dark fiction over utopia, you know? The difference between a utopia book and a dystopia book, a lot of the time, is that the person writing the dystopia knows the world they're writing would be miserable to live in, and the person writing the utopia hasn't thought that their ideal world might be a nightmare for someone else. We can take a lot of very dark bullshit, but the moment that you lose that awareness that what's happening here is fucking terrible, you lose our... ability to engage with the work. Because if you, the author, aren't displaying that awareness, we can't keep with it. It's like how you can tell when an author doesn't view women as people, but with that view of... autonomy. The disabled. The way that cutting away any choice of how to live is seen as a mercy - and we know this may seem an extreme view of the subject matter presented, but we have seen these ways of thinking in people before, and a lot of those experiences have majorly affected our life.

We can see how someone would like it, if they had different experiences to us, if their brain worked a different way. Unfortunately, it makes us want to physically chew our arms off, and none of the narrative we've seen escapes that... pervasive, all-consuming thought, in the background, that you don't know yourself as well as someone else with a position of power over you. That if you gave up control, someone could make the decisions for you, and that would be good. That life is better when you have no say over what happens to your own body.

If it's something you like, we aren't going to yuck your yum. KINKTOMATO is a thing for a good reason, and you enjoying something is decidedly not our problem - we probably would legitimately never mention it if not specifically asked. But we quite value our bodily autonomy, and we have lived our life in a position where almost all of our problems have come from the fact that there are a lot of people who believe we don't have the capacity to properly make our own decisions, and we have had to battle that, tooth and claw, for years, and still, arguably, don't have all of our life in hand. It feels awful, it strikes on things we have personal experience with from an angle that feels like the author believes that it was stupid for us to attempt to fight people who had best intentions for us, even when "best intentions" can pave a road to hell worse than anything else you can imagine.

The sympathy in this narrative does not go to those who fight against domestication. In this setting, we are treated like a toddler fighting against what's best for us for wanting the right to choose what we do with our own body, and we cannot separate that underlying view from the story enough to enjoy it.

Also it doesn't have enough interesting spec bio for us to tolerate it sorry

[unwelcome-ozian]

Beta intelligence military esque

Alice in wonderland

Alters, files, jpegs, bugs, closed systems, open networks

brain chip with memory / data

Infomation processing updates and reboots

'Uploading' / installing / creating a system of information that can behave as a central infomation processing unit accessible to large portions of the consciousness. Necessarily in order to function as so with sufficient data. The unit is bugged with instructions, "error correction", regarding infomation processing.

It can also behave like a guardian between sensory and extra physical experience.

"Was very buggy at first". Has potential to casues unwanted glitches or leaks, unpredictability and could malfunction entirely, especially during the initial accessing / updating. I think the large amount of information being synthesized can reroute experiences, motivations, feelings and knowledge to other areas of consciousness, which can cause a domino effect of "disobedience", and or reprogramming.

I think this volatility is most pronounced during the initial stages of operation because the error correcting and rerouting sequences have not been 'perfected' yet and are in their least effective states, trail and error learning as it operates, graded by whatever instructions or result seeking input that called for the "error correction".

I read the ask about programming people like a computer. Whoever wrote that is not alone. Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch, do you have anymore information about them and what they did to people?

Here is some information for you. Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch weren't directly involved in the programming of individuals. Their work was dual-use.

Exploring the Mind of Walter Pitts: The Father of Neural Networks

McCulloch-Pitts Neuron — Mankind’s First Mathematical Model Of A Biological Neuron

Introduction To Cognitive Computing And Its Various Applications

Cognitive Electronic Warfare: Conceptual Design and Architecture

Security and Military Implications of Neurotechnology and Artificial Intelligence

Oz

[macchiatosdumptruck]

I am once again having Kreese/Terry/Daniel thoughts

[rizoscvrly]

“Without such self-reflection, there’s no way to change”

[liuisi]

just got grilled by one of the lab people im working with and miraculously did NOT make myself look like a complete idiot

[raffaellopalandri]

Control and the Mind — Neuroscience, Psychology, and Cognitive Limitations - Post 2 of 5

The notion of control is deeply embedded in the fabric of human consciousness. Photo by JESHOOTS.com on Pexels.com From the cognitive mechanisms that govern our thoughts and behaviours to the philosophical contemplations on agency and free will, control emerges as a fundamental axis upon which both individual experience and collective existence are structured. Across millennia, human inquiry…

[the-most-humble-blog]

“They Tested My Words for AI. Then Reblogged Them Anyway.”

🧠 This isn’t a flex. It’s a postmortem for every gatekeeper who thought a man like me couldn’t exist.

I didn’t arrive with a fanbase. No MFA. No agent. No blue check. Just a keyboard, a cracked screen, and a mind that wouldn’t shut the fuck up.

I started like most do: fumbling through prompts, feeding lines into AI tools, hoping they’d spit something back that sounded like it had blood in it. Something that could survive outside the echo chamber.

I was clumsy. My metaphors limped. My cadence stuttered. I leaned on AI like a man crawling from a burning building, not knowing he’d one day build the fire.

And nobody gave a shit.

No reblogs. No comments. No applause. Just threats, a few anonymous “kill yourself” asks, and the usual allergic reactions from the intellectually unarmed.

But then?

Something cracked. In me. In the language. In the culture.

I stopped trying to sound like a writer. I started writing like a fucking lightning storm. From the skull. From the marrow. From the unsanctioned gospel of neurodivergence. I didn’t write for literary approval. I wrote to leave dents.

🧨 Truth doesn’t need permission. It needs impact.

And that’s when the literary world began to shudder.

🔍 They Ran My Words Through AI Detectors

Because they had to.

My cadence didn’t match the Tumblr norm. Too sharp. Too predatory. Too many-layered to be casual. Like a brain in full war-paint. Like syntax loaded with psychosexual proximity mines.

So they tested it.

GPTZero. Turnitin. Originality.ai.

They threw everything they had at it. And the machines — designed to sniff out mimicry and ghost-writing — flinched.

98% to 100% Human. Every time.

No red flags. No blur. No “partial AI detected.”

Just a screen spitting out the one word they didn’t expect:

Human.

Not because I didn’t use AI. But because I transcended it.

I didn’t just use the machine. I trained with it. I bled drafts into it. I let it show me rhythm — then I broke its tempo with my own war cadence. I let it teach me structure — then I rewrote the algorithm to match the sound of a man unmedicated, unfiltered, unashamed.

I took the one thing Silicon Valley swore you couldn’t fake — and I carved my name into it with a bone knife and a vengeance.

I didn’t mimic the machine.

I dominated it.

📊 Let’s Talk Numbers

The average post on Tumblr gets 14 reblogs. Mine? Hundreds. Sometimes thousands. Every week. Without a PR team. Without SEO.

Just blood in the phrasing. Just trauma weaponized. Just cadence honed into literary shrapnel.

Lines that cut. Lines that heal. Lines that reprogram. Not as “content.” As dominion.

People didn’t share my work because they liked it. They shared it because it did something to them.

Because it slipped past their filters. Because it activated something raw. Because it haunted them.

🧠 I Am the First of My Kind

A literary juggernaut who used the machine to upgrade his humanity — not surrender it.

This isn’t a story about AI. It’s a story about a man who refused to be silenced — and found a weapon in the noise.

I am not the result of an algorithm. I am the reason algorithms recalibrate.

I didn’t crawl up through academia. I came up from the blackout. From the autistic silence. From the dissociated battlefield of neurodivergence and spiritual rage.

I didn’t want applause. I wanted to leave claw marks in the digital cathedral.

And now?

🧠 They test my words for AI — and reblog them anyway.

Because somewhere inside, they know:

This is what real feels like. This is what unfiltered power reads like. This is the voice they were trained not to admit they crave.

📌 You Think This Is About AI?

It never was.

This is about the man they told to be quiet. The one they tried to soften. The one who sat silent in classrooms, rage flooding his brain, because no one taught the truth his mind needed.

This is for the ones who were never heard. The ones like me. Autistic. Divergent. Relentless. Built different — and punished for it.

This is not “inspiration.” This is vengeance.

It is Aristotle rage against a world that builds thrones for mediocrity and gulags for genius that can’t be tamed.

I am not a blogger.

I am not a brand.

I am the goddamn category error they hope never catches fire.

But it’s too late.

Because I’ve already burned the map. And your detectors? They just signed the fucking obituary for the old literary world.

🧠 They Tested My Words for AI. Then Reblogged Them Anyway.

—

[guillory-street-gossip]

Same type of idea of the last two asks, there’s a quote in book 2 that’s “Vianca wanted righteousness. Levi wanted glory. And she [Enne]…wanted revenge” and that so perfectly sums up all those characters thoughts and actions and they all stick by that simple characterization

I'm gonna have to disagree, though. At least on Vianca's point. Does she want righteousness? Maybe in Enne's eyes, she does. But I don't know if that's ever been her actual primary motivator. Enne (that's who's narrating, right?) is giving a very... charitable interpretation of Vianca at this point. Down the line, I don't think she'd even agree with herself.

[fatfemmefreaquency]

seeing people uncritically discuss behavioural psych as if it hasn’t almost all been thoroughly debunked is wild to me

[unwelcome-ozian]

Cognitive Dissonance And The Conflict Within Cognitive dissonance, a psychological tension arising from conflicting beliefs and information, plays a central role in maintaining members’ allegiance to the group’s ideology and leader. Cults typically present their ideology as absolute truth, with the leader as an infallible authority. They employ persuasive tactics, such as the foot-in-the-door technique and reciprocity, to heighten members’ dedication gradually. As involvement deepens, indoctrination solidifies, discouraging questioning and creating a closed belief system where dissent is seen as a threat.