neuroscience - Eidoism

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The Real Enemy in Gaza

The Gaza conflict is not unsolved because leaders lack clever plans, but because human brains are wired to turn every plan into a battlefield for dignity. Israel and the U.S. want closure through decisive control, Hamas thrives on endless struggle, international do-gooders seek moral recognition, and the Palestinian people remain victims caught between these forces. The hidden mechanism is the Demand for Recognition (DfR) — an unconscious neural bias that bends every prediction of “what to do next” toward preserving pride and avoiding humiliation. As long as DfR drives decision-making, Gaza will remain trapped in a cycle of violence, where strength creates erasure, resistance creates survival, and peace is always postponed.

July 2, 2025 Seeing the Loop

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The Loop of Recognition in Research

This essay critiques the growing trend of using brain stimulation to “enhance” cognitive functions like math learning. Using a recent tRNS study as a case example, it argues that such research reflects not genuine insight into the brain, but a deeper loop of institutional recognition-seeking. By stimulating large, imprecise brain regions without understanding the underlying logic of cognition, these studies reveal more about the academic system’s need for applause than about how humans actually think.

May 27, 2025 AI and Eidoism / Neural Structures

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Against the Myth of God-Like AGI

The essay critiques the myth of “God-like” AGI promoted by tech oligarchs, arguing that claims of objective, cosmopolitan AI serve to mask the cultural, economic, and political interests embedded in its design. Drawing on neuroscience and the recognition loop, it shows that each culture is defined by unique neural patterns, making genuine universal objectivity impossible for any AGI. The essay calls for radical pluralism, transparency, and democratic oversight, proposing a system of multiple, culturally rooted intelligences instead of a single, dominant authority. Only by exposing biases and enabling contestation can AGI serve humanity rather than deepen existing hierarchies of power.

May 27, 2025 Philosophy / Psychology

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Can Self-Awareness Change Evolution?

Humanity’s greatest technological feats—from rockets to Mars to global communication networks—have not freed us from the ancient, unconscious drive for recognition that shapes status, competition, and conflict. While the evolution of deep self-awareness allows us to reflect, plan, and innovate, it also enables us to rationalize and amplify our need for approval, often fueling war, anxiety, and overconsumption. Eidoism proposes a new evolutionary step: not just seeing this hidden recognition loop, but actively intervening to control it at both personal and societal levels. If humanity can collectively recognize and master this loop, we may finally shift from being products of blind evolution to conscious agents of our own destiny—changing the rules of survival, cooperation, and meaning itself.

May 27, 2025 Psychology / Form Economy

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Recognition, Collapse, and Conflict

From the doomed paradise of Calhoun’s mouse utopia to the simmering tensions between Russia and the European Union, this essay traces a hidden force that shapes the fate of societies: the demand for recognition. Drawing on animal behavior, neuroscience, crime, and the cycles of war, it reveals how even in times of abundance, the denial of dignity, status, and belonging can unravel families, fuel violence, and push nations toward conflict. Only by understanding and rebalancing this invisible economy of recognition can we hope to escape the cycles of collapse and war that haunt both history and the present.

May 19, 2025 Philosophy / Seeing the Loop

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The Loop Must Burn

Eidoism offers no status, no glory, no dopamine high. It doesn’t sell success—it dismantles the need for it. That’s why it will be rejected. Especially by the young, whose minds are wired to perform, to be seen, to become. But once the recognition loop collapses—through failure, betrayal, or exhaustion—Eidoism waits. Not as salvation, but as structure. It is not a path to meaning. It is the end of needing one.

May 18, 2025 Psychology

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Recognition: The Hidden Root of Motivation

Eidoism challenges traditional psychological models by arguing that all human motivation—whether physical, social, or abstract—can be traced back to a fundamental neural mechanism: the demand for recognition and the pursuit of comfort. By examining the brain’s “comfort-uncomfortable” comparator as an abstract neural process, the discussion reveals how both physical and social equilibrium are evaluated and maintained, reshaping our understanding of why we act, adapt, or suffer.