2023:

Aus dem Zugzwang, der einen das Jahr hindurch begleitet, einige Stunden, einige Tage herauszutreten, um Pläne zu entwerfen, um Pläne zu schmieden ...

Ich wünsche allen Lesern gegen Ende das Jahres Zeit für Reflexion, für die Rückschau und die Vorausschau.

Einen guten Rutsch ins Jahr 2023!

Leaving a Legacy:

"Individual human beings have long strived to create and curate an enduring post-mortem reputation—their “legacy” (Braudy, 1986). They do this in a variety of ways, such as via sports achievement, creative works, having children, leaving a financial endowment, philanthropy, passing down family heirlooms, or extreme attention-grabbing acts (Hunter, 2008). In lay terms, legacy can be defined as “something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past” or “a gift by will esp. of money or other personal property” (Merriam-Webster, 2014). Some researchers, working in the fields of positive psychology or narratology, have also emphasized the process of legacy, as in “the process of passing oneself through generations, creating continuity from the past through the present to the future” (Hunter, 2008, p. 314).

What is largely missing from these examples is any explicit reference to the fact that legacy centers, rather curiously, on the reputation of the self after death. ... Absent a belief in the continued capacity to know how one is being regarded despite being dead, it is unclear why we should care how others will view us, or our life's work, after our consciousness expires. And yet, the desire and motivation to leave a legacy, even among those who do not believe in an afterlife, is ostensibly a powerful influence on our lives."

A cybernetic theory of autism: Autism as a consequence of low trait Plasticity

A cybernetic theory of autism: Autism as a consequence of low trait Plasticity
Matthew A. Rogers, Jed T. Elison, Scott D. Blain, Colin G. DeYoung (Dec 2022)

Abstract

According to Cybernetic Big Five Theory (CB5T), personality traits reflect variation in the parameters of evolved cybernetic mechanisms, and extreme manifestations of these traits correspond to a risk for psychopathology because they threaten the organism's ability to pursue its goals effectively. Our theory of autism as a consequence of low Plasticity extends CB5T to provide a cybernetic account of the origin of autistic traits. The theory argues that, because all psychological competencies are initially developed through exploration, typical development requires sensitivity to the incentive reward value of the unknown (i.e., the unpredicted). According to CB5T, motivation to explore the unknown is the core function underlying the metatrait Plasticity, the shared variance of Extraversion and Openness/Intellect. This theory makes predictions regarding the downstream developmental consequences of early low Plasticity, and each prediction maps well onto autistic symptomatology. This approach may help to explain the heterogeneity of autism, as there are many ways that rigidity can reinforce itself to create a developmental trap influencing the development of competencies. We end by presenting preliminary meta-analytic and new data showing a strong negative relation between Plasticity and autistic symptomatology.

Rückblick, Vorausblick, Weihnachtszeit:

Am Ende des Jahres sich etwas Zeit nehmen, um zurück zu schauen und um voraus zu blicken. Um Vergangenes zu reflektieren und Künftiges festzulegen. Wozu hat dieser Blog bisher gedient? Was habe ich mit ihm erreicht? Was habe ich nicht erreicht? Klare und besinnliche Stunden gehören mit zu den kostbarsten Stunden. Ein kurzer Rück- und Vorausblick wird Ende des Jahres erscheinen. Ich wünsche allen Lesern eine schöne Weihnachtszeit: Zeit fürs Zusammensein, für Gespräche, Überlegungen, Hobbies, Leidenschaften ...

Aus der Reserve locken:

Bedeutung:

"Jemanden dazu bringen, seine Gefühle zu zeigen oder sein Wissen preiszugeben; jemanden herausfordern; jemanden veranlassen, seine Zurückhaltung aufzugeben"

A Velocity of Being:

"One of the great cruelties and great glories of creative work is the wild discrepancy of timelines between vision and execution. When we dream up a project, we invariably underestimate the amount of time and effort required to make it a reality. Rather than a cognitive bug, perhaps this is the supreme coping mechanism of the creative mind — if we could see clearly the toil ahead at the outset of any creative endeavor, we might be too dispirited to begin, too reluctant to gamble between the heroic and the foolish, too paralyzed to walk the long and tenuous tightrope of hope and fear by which any worthwhile destination is reached."

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Irritieren:

Synonyme:

ablenken, verunsichern, stören, verwirren, aus der Fassung bringen, aus dem Konzept bringen

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Ein bisschen auch das Thema: "Testen". Was macht man, wenn man herausfinden will, wie jemand wirklich tickt, wie jemand in Situationen handelt, in denen es um etwas geht, in denen sich Unsicherheit einfindet? Durch ein Herbeiführen von Irritation, einer Lockerung der Gefasstheit, ..., wird sich zeigen, wie jemand handelt, wenn wenig Erfahrung vorgibt oder vorschreibt, wie gehandelt werden kann, wie gehandelt werden soll.