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[marginalium] Will Africa become China's Middle-East? — 1 Nov 2024
[marginalium] What happens if Americans claim asylum from a Trump regime? — 1 Nov 2024
[marginalium] The uneven effects of AI on the economy — 1 Nov 2024
[marginalium] The End of the NFL’s Concussion Crisis — 30 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Interesting history of the Rorschach — 29 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Unsupervised AI creates religion, memecoin, is now millionaire — 29 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Statistical Significance And Why It Matters — 25 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Why deepfakes pose less of a threat than many predict — 25 Oct 2024
[marginalium] Accidentally a good list of great thinkers — 25 Oct 2024
[article] Nervous Energy — 25 Oct 2024
The nervous system teaches us the most important lesson about human behaviour: the main thing our body does is transform the world into adaptive responses, and the nervous system is at the very core of it. But beyond that, it’s mostly just a mess.
[marginalium] Is surveillance capitalism not that bad? — 23 Oct 2024
[marginalium] The Whirlpool of the Artificial — 22 Oct 2024
[marginalium] What It’s Like To Work On A Megayacht — 21 Oct 2024
[marginalium] If the anti-fluoride people turn out to be right... — 20 Oct 2024
[marginalium] The real reason male college enrollment is dropping? — 18 Oct 2024

btrmt. (text-only version)

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btrmt. (betterment) examines ideologies worth choosing. Created by Dorian Minors—Cambridge PhD in cognitive neuroscience, Associate Professor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Core philosophy: humans are animals first, with automatic patterns shaped for us, not by us. Better to examine and choose.

Core concepts. Animals First: automatic patterns of thought and action, but our greatest capacity is nurture. Half Awake: deadened by systems that narrow rather than expand potential. Karstica: unexamined ideologies (hidden sinkholes beneath). Credenda: belief systems we should choose deliberately.

The manifesto. Cynosure (focus): betterment, gratification, connection. Architecture (support): inner (somatic, spiritual, thought) and outer (digital, collective, wealth).

Mission. Not answers but examination. Break academic gatekeeping. Make sciences of mind accessible. Question rather than prescribe.

Writing style. Scholarly without jargon barriers. Philosophical yet practical—grounded in neuroscience and lived experience. Reflective, discovery-oriented. Literary references and metaphor. Critical of systems that narrow human potential. Rejects "humans are flawed"—we're half awake, not broken.

Copyright. BTRMT LIMITED (England/Wales no. 13755561) 2026. Dorian Minors 2026.

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About Dorian Minors. Started btrmt. in 2013 to share sciences of mind with people who weren't studying them. Background: six years Australian Defence Force (Platoon Commander, Infantry); a decade of clinical practice; Gates Cambridge Scholar; PhD cognitive neuroscience, University of Cambridge (2018–2024); currently Associate Professor, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he runs the ethical leadership module. Research interests: neural basis of intelligent behaviour; ritual formation and breakdown; ethical decision-making and leadership; judgement and intent when decisions are shared with AI; wellbeing.

External projects (links also available via Analects):

Neurotypica: Brain science guide for non-scientists

Black Cortex: Leadership consulting

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