I remember reviewing (not reading) this book.
It was fascinating in that it raised interesting questions about the relationship between the neurocognitive analysis (as evidenced by brain scans) and his subjective experience, which was atypical for a psychopath (even though he had that brain signature).
For folks who have been following, this work carries implications for the relation and mystery between the brain proper (defined as neurobiological activity), Mind1 (defined as neurocognitive functional analyses of mental behavior) and Mind2 (defined as subjective phenomenology)...
Best,
Gregg
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From: tree of knowledge system discussion <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Diop, Corinne Joan Martin - diopcj
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:03 AM
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I ran across this and found it interesting-- a neuroscientist who was studying brain abnormalities associated with psychopathy tested himself and discovered his brain had them: The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain / https://www.amazon.com/The-Psychopath-Inside-Neuroscientists-Personal/dp/1591846005
Corinne
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Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:09 AM
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Jamie,
That is not exactly how I would conceptualize psychopaths. What you describe here is closer to anti-social personality tendencies, which is a different cluster of concerns (anti-social overlaps, but also is quite different in that there are many anti-social folks who are not psychopaths and a number of psychopaths who are not anti-social, at least in terms of actions).
In brief, psychopaths lack empathy/sympathy for the emotional pain of others. In the language of the Influence Matrix, they lack or are extremely limited in the affective cluster around affiliation. Affiliation means to bring in as one or be a part of. Our affiliative system is what allows us to mesh with the interests of others and bring them in as our own. And this is what is fundamentally different about the psychopath. The simply don’t care that someone else would be hurt or injured. And it is not so much at the cognitive level of not caring. That is, it isn’t a justification, whereby they learn that certain other people are not important and not warrant care (we are all capable of learning that there are “others” who we should not affiliate with).
Rather, this is a basic perceptual-motivational-affective tendency to be extremely limited in their core affiliative capacities. It is likely to emerge as a function of a genetic predisposition followed by serious attachment injuries during sensitive developmental periods. This is especially true of sadistic psychopaths, who do enjoy the power that their capacity to inflict pain over others brings them.
Best,
Gregg
From: tree of knowledge system discussion <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Jamie D
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:50 PM
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I’m convinced people can become psychopaths, which I see as simply losing interest or faith in the simple, obvious, pragmatic good, after making seemingly innocuous choices, like being lazy, until their mind loses contact with value from lack of investment in value.
And because everything is exponential, they drift towards entropic, less useful, less meaningful pleasures until their hearts and vision are so small, they delight in totally useless behaviors like those we call “psychopathic”.
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 2:46 PM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
I think that would be extreme 😊. Consider, for example, there are sadistic psychopaths…
But we can say that the Freudian filter is deeply tied to self-deception, and that is one of the core features that allows human to “do evil” (to borrow a phrase from TOKer Steve Quackenbush).
From: tree of knowledge system discussion <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On Behalf Of Jamie D
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 4:30 PM
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Would it be extreme to say the Freudian filter is the root of all evil? Or, that lying to oneself is the first step down a slippery slope towards unconsciousness?
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