Interesting! This is starting to sound quite a bit like something resembling verifiable claims (not quite, but much closer than most other stuff in this vein!).
Could you say a bit more about what sorts of experiments you envision, that could verify the effects you allude to? (Or, to put it another way: you said you’d wager on the existence of these effects—do you mind sketching out in more detail how we might construct the conditions of such a bet, with sufficient rigor to make it definitely resolvable?)
In any case, I very much appreciate this sort of response, thanks.
Likewise, I really appreciate Ruby’s replies here. I haven’t reflected deeply enough on the “perceptual-emotional shift” thing to know whether I fully agree, but it seems very plausible to me, and the claims he’s putting forward sound right to me.
Psychological resilience and motivated cognition are difficult to measure, but I’m very certain they’re real things. Not everything real and which has a large causal effect on the world is easily measured. I’m not inclined to sketch out protocols for measuring these things in this comment thread, but I’d recommend How To Measure Anything as the book I’d turn to if I was to try.
Interesting! This is starting to sound quite a bit like something resembling verifiable claims (not quite, but much closer than most other stuff in this vein!).
Could you say a bit more about what sorts of experiments you envision, that could verify the effects you allude to? (Or, to put it another way: you said you’d wager on the existence of these effects—do you mind sketching out in more detail how we might construct the conditions of such a bet, with sufficient rigor to make it definitely resolvable?)
In any case, I very much appreciate this sort of response, thanks.
Likewise, I really appreciate Ruby’s replies here. I haven’t reflected deeply enough on the “perceptual-emotional shift” thing to know whether I fully agree, but it seems very plausible to me, and the claims he’s putting forward sound right to me.
Glad it’s helpful!
Psychological resilience and motivated cognition are difficult to measure, but I’m very certain they’re real things. Not everything real and which has a large causal effect on the world is easily measured. I’m not inclined to sketch out protocols for measuring these things in this comment thread, but I’d recommend How To Measure Anything as the book I’d turn to if I was to try.