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The phantom Tyler Cowen
Here is a rough paraphrase of my words yesterday to one of my doctoral students:
"It is not I, Tyler Cowen, your doctoral advisor, who will give you the most aid on this dissertation. It is the Phantom Tyler Cowen inside your head. You have a model of me, a pretty good one, and you know what I will object to and what will delight me. The Phantom Tyler Cowen objects, in your head, before the real Tyler Cowen has much of a chance.
That is why the real Tyler Cowen is sometimes so silent."
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 23, 2006 at 07:34 AM in Education | Permalink
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Sometimes the Phantom Tyler Cowen blogs inside my head.
Posted by: Jacqueline at Sep 23, 2006 8:36:30 AM
There is the phantom Tyler Cowen in your student's head, and then there is the phantom Tyler Cohen in your head also. . .
Posted by: Matthew Cromer at Sep 23, 2006 8:40:30 AM
What if the student has only Phantom Tyrone in his head?
Posted by: Hei Lun Chan at Sep 23, 2006 9:50:57 AM
I definitely believe that our expectations from others can create a Phantom of everyone: Our desires and wishes can be sometime so strong and powerful to give a form to "What-We-Expect" or in other words to "What-We-Want" from others. And that seems to be specially true when we do not pay much attention to others: It is when we do not care about others' beliefs or thoughts -- perhaps, because we do not like these -- that a sort of substitution can occur between our counterpart and the Phantom of him/her. To stay tune with others therefore, can be a more complicated and difficult task than we believe. Very often it can happen to say: " ... I love you ... " when we simply "want" someone since (s)he represents the object of our desire. And that does not necessarily imply that we care about what (s)he believes or wishes: These cases, we prefer to care about what the Phantom of her/him believes or wishes.
Posted by: Jacopo at Sep 23, 2006 9:53:02 AM
Tyler, can I have a nightlight ? There's an economist under my bed, and on dark moonless nights I can hear him slurping pho...
Posted by: Mike at Sep 23, 2006 11:13:55 AM
Isn't this a pretty standard thing for people to do? I find that when I've read enough of some writer, I have a phantom them in my head, and it's really helpful to be able to distinguish between what I believe and what I think X, Y, and Z would believe.
The best fictional picture of this I've seen is the Motie fyunch-clicks in _The Mote in God's Eye_ and _The Gripping Hand_. They have this scene in which a Motie mediator changes body posture and accent while essentially becoming his master to consider some issue, and then reverts back to himself when he's done.
Posted by: albatross at Sep 23, 2006 1:24:57 PM
"The Phantom Tyler Cowen objects, in your head, before the real Tyler Cowen has much of a chance."
A true case of spectral analysis.
By the way, if Phantom Tyler supplies the objections, who provides the constructive suggestions?
Posted by: Bill Gardner at Sep 23, 2006 1:43:23 PM
WWTCD?
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Maybe you need to hand out "WWTC Do?" bracelets.
Posted by: Franklin Sayre at Sep 23, 2006 3:44:20 PM
It's not a phantom, it's a virus.
Alex
Posted by: Alex Tabarrok at Sep 23, 2006 4:56:58 PM
"What if the student has only Phantom Tyrone in his head?"
Nobel Prize, baby!
Posted by: Keith at Sep 23, 2006 6:03:20 PM
Voices In My Head death match: Phantom Tyler vs. Smith's Impartial Observer.
I wonder what Berkowitz would have done if Carr's dog had channeled Phantom TC instead of an ancient demon?
Posted by: Eric H at Sep 23, 2006 6:14:39 PM
Poker players understand this concept well. Players have to consider how others will react to each move; the best players have highly accurate versions of Phantom Others in their heads.
Posted by: Hei Lun Chan at Sep 24, 2006 7:50:36 AM
Why, oh why, do the voices in my head have to be Tyler Cowen?
Posted by: Max at Sep 24, 2006 10:41:07 PM
I know this because Tyler knows this.
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