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Interdependence and Impermanence: A Mediation Model Integrating Emptiness, Cognitive Strategies, and Cultural Constructs
Abstract:This paper explores the synthesis of Nagarjuna’s concept of ’emptiness’ with modern cognitive strategies such as ‘chunking’, and societal views like the interpretation of yin/yang, to construct a mediation model. It proposes that understanding emptiness influences cognitive processes and cultural perceptions, which in turn shape attitudes towards interdependence and impermanence. The model suggests that philosophical…
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狼とライオン; Wolves & Lions; Reordering Ideological Social Framing of ”Natural Exclusion”
This came after seeing a post about lions asserting power over wolves, which seemed more of the status quo usurpation of animal life, and nature, by colonizing ideologies produced through social ordering behaviors lead by totemization, totems, and collective beliefs developed in collective effervescence (see Durkheim, Marx, & Engles, and biblical referents). This is a…
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Beyond the Frame: Deconstructing Risky Decisions, Psychological Biases, and the Ethical Quandaries of Scientific Application
Abstract:This dialogue delves into the complexities of human decision-making under uncertainty, exploring the intricate interplay between framing effects, cognitive limitations, and potential ethical concerns in the application of psychological and economic insights. Examining a recent risky-decision experiment within this framework, we critically discuss the partial confirmation of framing reversal hypotheses and its limitations due to design constraints. The conversation then expands…
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Shugyokai is the digital cave that contains the writings, arts, and research of Kiba (i.e., Roy Æ Hodges), better known in MDL/VDL as <RÆH|牙|K1B4>, an uchi-deshi (i.e., disciple) of Mutsugi Saotome, Shihan. Kiba holds a BS Psychology, summa cum laude with a double major in Sociology with a minor in At-Risk-Youth from Washington State University and has served as a chapter vice-president of Psi Chi, a psychology honor society. The preferred name is 牙 (i.e., Kiba). [REDACTED:X79A]. These works are dedicated to the benefit of limitless beings.
牙 is a furry, ascetic, artist, soldier, meditator, photographer, researcher, scholar, poet, electronics technician, analyst, martial artist, software engineer/programmer, inventor, entrepreneur, and business leader, bodhisattva, and vajrasattva.
Kiba is what Granovetter (1973) would call a ”weak tie“ or a “bridge” between groups concomitant a “strong tie” with similar situated identity/personality matrices crossing social networks. This being process is otherwise known as [REDACTED].
