{"id":2315,"date":"2018-03-07T20:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:22:50","slug":"a-really-weird-article-about-human-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/07\/a-really-weird-article-about-human-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Really Weird Article About Human Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out at the fringes of the Dark Enlightenment are many very smart, very weird individuals.\u00a0 The guy who writes the blog that this link goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2018\/03\/04\/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand-friston-on-free-energy\/\">http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2018\/03\/04\/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand-friston-on-free-energy\/<\/a> is a psychiatrist who supposedly is part of the dissident right.\u00a0 In this post he discusses a theory (Free Energy Principle) that unifies the behavior of living things from the single cell organism up to and including the behavior of human beings.\u00a0 Now I haven\u2019t read all the details but apparently the postulator of this theory is a brilliant individual who is equally comfortable with brain physiology and quantum physics and sees links between both.\u00a0 Apparently, he has identified the underlying motivation behind all human activity.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not love or fear or sex or power.\u00a0 It\u2019s the desire to avoid uncertainty.\u00a0 Huh.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t see that coming.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he also links <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1571064518300083\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1571064518300083<\/a> to a paper about this theory that compares the potential for applying this theory in real life to the fictional psychohistory of Asimov\u2019s Harry Seldon.\u00a0 In the Foundation novels Harry Seldon uses psychohistory to predict the future and also engineer changes to that history to improve the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>And they call me crazy for voting for Trump!\u00a0 Well, anyway, I include it here for your attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[socialpoll id=&#8221;2489142&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out at the fringes of the Dark Enlightenment are many very smart, very weird individuals.\u00a0 The guy who writes the blog that this link goes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237,4],"tags":[149,814,815,812,813,816,817],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","category-sff","tag-asimov","tag-foundation","tag-free-energy-principle","tag-harry-seldon","tag-karl-friston","tag-psychohistory","tag-slate-star-codex"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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