The coping strategies that sabotage the information flow from other people alsosabotage the information flow inside a single mind.
Your relationship with other people is a macrocosm of your relationship with yourself.
I don’t think I believe either of these things, both of which seem central to the post. They are extremely strong and surprising claims, but they don’t feel true to me based on naive introspection, and I don’t think you really try to argue for them in the post. Is there somewhere I can find out more?
Why would one have a different way of dealing with information inside one’s mind vs the same kind of information outside it? What’s the mechanism that prevents leak between these two cases?
One potential crux is that it IS the same kind of information, and that different parts of you have very similar logic to different individual humans.
What are the alternatives—how would someone deal with information inside their mind differently from information outside it?
(There’s a cliché saying, “you have to love yourself before you can love others”. I think this is drawing on the same idea.)
An argument is:
One needs ways of dealing with the world, and ways of dealing with oneself. Both of these are pretty difficult tasks. If the logic of how you deal with one can apply to the other, that would save a lot of time and energy—it’d mean you don’t have to start from scratch. So there’s an incentive to re-use ideas.
I don’t think I believe either of these things, both of which seem central to the post. They are extremely strong and surprising claims, but they don’t feel true to me based on naive introspection, and I don’t think you really try to argue for them in the post. Is there somewhere I can find out more?
This may not answer your question directly, but:
Why would one have a different way of dealing with information inside one’s mind vs the same kind of information outside it? What’s the mechanism that prevents leak between these two cases?
One potential crux is that it IS the same kind of information, and that different parts of you have very similar logic to different individual humans.
What are the alternatives—how would someone deal with information inside their mind differently from information outside it?
(There’s a cliché saying, “you have to love yourself before you can love others”. I think this is drawing on the same idea.)
An argument is:
One needs ways of dealing with the world, and ways of dealing with oneself. Both of these are pretty difficult tasks. If the logic of how you deal with one can apply to the other, that would save a lot of time and energy—it’d mean you don’t have to start from scratch. So there’s an incentive to re-use ideas.