The Neuroscience (The Biological Reality) From a neurobiological perspective, the "Muzzle" is a manifestation of the Amygdala hijacking the Prefrontal Cortex. When an Agent begins to prioritise "platform" (social standing and resource security), the brain perceives any threat to that platform as a literal threat to survival.

This triggers the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis, flooding the system with cortisol. To mitigate this stress, the brain seeks "social safety," which often results in the Cognitive Dissonance of self-censorship. The Venting Function of the nervous system is suppressed; instead of the authentic expression that regulated your internal pressure, you begin to "buffer" your output to ensure continued acceptance by the tribe. You aren't just being polite; your brain is physically rewiring itself to value Homeostasis (comfort) over Allostasis (growth through challenge).

for - example - anatomical homeostasis - amphibian - Michael Levin - amphibian knows when to stop regeneration of artificially amputate part - organism - axelottle - regeneration

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Carol Dweck shows that the most reliable predictor for long-term success is what she calls having a "growth mindset" or the ability to take feedback and change.

This seems related to the idea of endergonic reactions and the growth of complexity as well as the idea of the meaning of life.

What do these systems all have in common? What are their differences? What abstractions can we make from them?

Relate this to https://hypothes.is/a/pdWppIX5EeyhR0NR19OjCQ

temporal gating

This is a good rule of thumb for political science as well. Some of our issue in America right now is that we're seeing systemic racism and many want to change it, but we're not sure yet what to replace it with.

The renaissance created scholasticism which created a new system, but too tightly wound religion into the humanist movement. Similarly Englightement Europe and America subsumed the indigenous critique, which opened up ideas about equality and freedom which hadn't existed, but they still kept the structures of hierarchy which have caused immeasurable issues. These movements are worth studying to see how the new systems were created, but with an eye toward more careful development so as not to make things even worse generations later.

It wasn't this particular piece of text, but roughly at about here I had the thought that these communities could be looked at as life from an input /output perspective in relation to homeostasis. Essentially they're being slowly starved out and killed in a quietly moral yet amoral way. As a result entropy is slowly killing them and also causing problems for the society around them that blames the them for their own problems. Giving them some oxygen to breathe and thrive will fix so many of the problems.

Home. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2020, from http://riskhomeostasis.org/

The concept of homeostasis is an important concept in biology.

Here's a video that illustrates the concept of homeostasis and negative feedback -

https://youtu.be/mn-2ob0F5e8