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boanerges20 · 3 months

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Kevin Mitchell

#motorcycle #kevin mitchell #motolegends #sport bike #racing #motorsports #ride hard or go home #built for speed #classic motorcycle #moto love #lifestyle

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maaarine · 5 months

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Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will (Kevin Mitchell, 2023)

"If traits like extraversion and neuroticism really reflected some singular factor in the brain (such as “positive emotionality” or “negative emotionality,” for instance), one might expect to find some brain measure that consistently correlates with them—

say, a bigger amygdala or higher levels of serotonin or more dopaminergic connections with the striatum, or really an infinite range of other possibilities.

Researchers have looked for many years for these kinds of correlates and effectively come up empty.

There are reports of positive correlations but none has been robustly replicated.

A reasonable conclusion, at some point, is that a trait like extraversion is not in fact a singular “thing in the brain.”

Rather, it is a construct reflecting multiple neural parameters.

We already encountered in our discussion of the circuits controlling decision making and action selection what some of these parameters could be.

An animal navigating through its environment has to monitor its own internal state to generate motivations; assess opportunities and threats;

anticipate rewards and punishments; weigh multiple, often conflicting short- and long-term goals against each other;

assess the reliability of different kinds of perceptual evidence; attach some measure of certainty to its various beliefs;

weigh the confidence level required to act versus the urgency for action;

consider how much effort it is willing to expend or how long it is willing to wait or how much risk it is willing to accept for a given reward of a given probability; and so on. (…)

That means that the tunings of factors like reward sensitivity, threat sensitivity, novelty salience, confidence thresholds, delay discounting (how long you are willing to wait for a reward), and risk aversion naturally—innately—vary among people.

Those kinds of parameters are things we do “find in the brain,” in the sense that neuroscientists have identified at least some of the circuits that seem to mediate these different signals and feed into the processes of belief formation, goal prioritization, and action selection.

Indeed, new technologies in animals are allowing researchers to observe these separable functions and to correlate levels of activity in specific circuits with, say, confidence levels, assessed threat levels, or anticipated reward;

scientists are even able to experimentally tweak the tuning of these parameters to alter decision making and behavior in real time."

#kevin mitchell #free agents #book #mbti #mbtiideas

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coolthingsguyslike · 2 years

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#New York #Mets #Kevin Mitchell #Howard Johnson #HoJo #1980s #baseball #dugout #rally caps

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gummyartstradingcards · 2 days

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#kevin mitchell #sf giants #baseball #mlb #baseball cards #card art

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removeoffthecraudestoppers · 1 year

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The Jebediah album Braxton Hicks has vibes like Kevin wrote the whole thing while watching daytime TV.

#2000s Australian indie rock posting #jebediah #kevin mitchell

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theonlyadawong · 1 year

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Much Ado About Nothing

Royal Shakespeare Company, 2022

Dir. Roy Alexander Weise

Photos by Ikin Yum

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fangirl6202 · 8 months

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Hangman, speaking for the Daggers: you're telling me that Admiral Kazansky and Maverick are married?!

Rooster: Yeah? I thought that was common knowledge

Ice and Mav, who literally never interact in public and haven't been seen speaking outside of work since like 1997: yeah guys what the fuck?

Additionally, how they figured it out

Mav, standing next to Ice: yeah, the wedding anniversary is next week so-

Phoenix: you're married?!

Mav: *confused* yes?

Hangman: to who?!

Mav: *points at Ice, literally standing way too close to be platonic*

The Daggers: exe. has stopped working

Ice: *thought he was done dealing with disaster aviators, but oh boy was he wrong*

#theyre so raymond and kevin from b99 coded here #theyre just so low on pda that literally no one notices #its the ONE thing mav can be calm about #surprisingly lol #top gun #top gun maverick #icemav #top gun daggers #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #jake hangman seresin #bradley rooster bradshaw #natasha phoenix trace

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loserdudes · 5 months

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Fun facts about the Boston Bruins as told by their dads

#boston bruins #bruins #hockey #nhl #brad marchand #matt poitras #jake debrusk #matt grzelcyk #mason lohrei #danton heinen #johnny beecher #derek forbort #trent frederic #charlie mcavoy #ian mitchell #jeremy swayman #kevin shattenkirk #brandon carlo

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scottishaccentsareawesome · 1 year

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...Oh my God, now I’m totally getting on a roll with this Top Gun x B99 headcanon...

- Iceman and Holt would be great acquaintances (Holt would never call anyone his “best friend”, that term’s entirely too childish)

- Ice and Maverick would have dinner with Holt and Kevin every time they’re in new York (Mav thinks they’re a little weird in terms of their dry sense of humour,, but he likes them enough)

- When Ice and Maverick come to the 99th precinct to visit Holt one day, Maverick meets Jake and Jake suddenly has a new Man Crush/Hero

- Amy, Ice and Holt have a groupchat where they talk about their husbands

- Maverick and Jake have groupchat with Charles where they all just constantly send memes to each other

- Maverick and Terry also bond and text each other about their dumb grown-up kids (Mav and the Daggers, Terry and the squad)

#top gun headcanon #b99 headcanon #icemav #holt x kevin #top gun #top gun maverick #tom kazansky #iceman kazansky #pete mitchell #maverick mitchell #raymond holt #kevin cozner #jake peralta #amy santiago #charles boyle #rosa diaz #terry jeffords #brooklyn nine nine #b99

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spockvarietyhour · 1 year

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Weapons at Maximum, Stargate SG-1

#Stargate SG1 #The Ark of Truth #200 #Cameron Mitchell #Teal'c #Kevin Marks #sg1edit #stargateedit #GIF #my gifs #it's not a stargate rewatch rewatch #The Ark of Truth Rewatch #Hide and Queue

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maaarine · 4 months

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Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will (Kevin Mitchell, 2023)

"Any information that leads you to prioritize one action over others is, in fact, a constraint—a useful one but still one that reduces your options for action.

And if you’re interpreting such information in the context of your memories and knowledge and understanding of the world and your motivations and goals, then those form another set of constraints—internal ones—that guide your behavior toward some purpose.

To be free of such constraints would be to act randomly, pointlessly, on a whim, for no reason.

You would, in fact, cease to be yourself; indeed, you would cease to be a self at all.

Selfhood is defined by continuity through time—by maintaining a certain dynamic pattern of processes in the face of the thermodynamic pressure to take on any of the other, almost infinite sets of disordered arrangements those processes could adopt.

Selfhood thus entails constraint. It is only constraint.

The freedom to be you involves constraining the elements that make you up from becoming not you.

In humans, this activity includes maintaining the continuity of our psychological, biographical selves: all the memories and experiences and relationships; all the learnings, the habits and heuristics and policies; the commitments and projects and long-term goals; and all the dispositions that go with them.

It means using the hard-won knowledge accumulated by your past self to guide action in the present moment in the service of your future self.

If you’re not doing that, you’re not doing you.

For these reasons, I take the absolutist definition of freedom to be incoherent in the context of the question whether we have free will.

If you take “free” to mean absolutely free from any prior causes whatsoever, then you can have “free” or you can have “we,” but not both."

#kevin mitchell #free agents #book #mbti #mbtiideas

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moviegodsandgoddesses · 11 months

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