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What is Alogrithmic Psychology?
AP was created by Tommy Halstead as a new field of study bridging computational and human emotion. Tommy is the author of Pastoral Counseling, The Medusa Code, and many other books and articles. Tommy gives seminars on AP worldwide and virtually. This is Your Brain on God is the foundation "textbook" in the field. Some of the key principles of AP include:
1. The "Four Brains" (B1, B2, B3 and B4). B1 is the genetic brain, which REACTS to emotion. B2 is the Algorithmic brain, which PROCESSES and attempts to control emotion. B3 is the Brain on God, which CHOOSES emotion.
2. The revolutionary concept of TWINES. Complex and astonishing, twines can revolutionize the way we live our lives.
3. The concept, ala George Box, that all frames are wrong but some are useful. Frames are a key facet of AP.
Other key principles include:
4. We can't think our way to joy.
5. The love of God gives us each moment of our lives.
6. We can't (fill in the blank...)... act, achieve, talk, evolve, grow, buy, save, spend... our way to happiness.
7. Detachment in the Buddhist sense, today, also is detachment from the B2 brain's processes and algorithms.
8. The key functions of the B2 brain are prioritization, relevance detection and projection, and calculating predictive futures.
9. No topic is more important to our planet's survival than human emotion.
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