Likely you're lacking a bit here. Dopamine peaks at a much higher level to get you to make tea than when you're actually drinking it. Desire/anticipat...
Is there a contemporary theory about sublimation (Freud's idea) that works or is relevant to explaining motivation? Hunger, sexual or social desire, s...
I'm not sure what the significance is of category error. In those articles it appears that interoceptive or exteroceptive status (ie. whether or not y...
It's not hard to imagine the state of being and existential conditions in which one would die or kill for a cause. There are some crazy historical sce...
Scientific American: Fear, Death and Politics: What Your Mortality Has to Do with the Upcoming Election Mortality Salience (wikipedia) Terror Manageme...
Some ideas that could work into your absurdly beautiful and tragic narrations: Sublimation -- An indirect or learned means to fulfill desire. Putting ...
Judges give higher bonds, people are less open to other cultures and religions, etc. Could you unpack and explain this a bit more with regard to death...
It's all about Bitter Crank or John Rawls really. They're the cat's meow and the answer to all questions. Now I will go and cry, alone, in my closet.....
Most cashiers I encounter don't say much that isn't related to the utility of the transaction. A few of them are somewhat dour with an inverted Mona L...
The thing in itself (ie. the world pre world) needs an observer to be known. Without senses and the apparatus of perception you can't sense the object...
Obviously we see why there would be an intolerance for shyness in the service industry. Extroverted traits and pro social skills will always be prefer...
A Darwinian version of the question would be under what social conditions could misanthropic beliefs be more adaptive than they are now (as opposed to...
Only two recurrent types of lucid dreaming that I can remember well. One is about driving blind. I realize that I'm trying to overcome the sleep paral...
"attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed" Thorongil is not impressed. Who is impresse...
A purpose of life is to be successful in the domains (ecologies) you find yourself in or have voluntarily chosen for yourself. This success is about b...
The anima is just like the wife in the Grimm's fairytale, The Fisherman and His Wife. Stepmothers are exceptionally cruel calculators. Best to pass bl...
Both, either or none depending upon the arbitrary condition you impose to identify him. Let me know why this is an unsatisfying answer to the paradox....
I guess your are invoking some likely average (normal) parental conduct in affluent Western countries. Whose parents are you talking about specificall...
The clone would acquire unique identity by the fact that both could interact with one another. There might be a battle to the death supposing that the...
I've heard that bats live in a state of samadhi their entire lives and that some hallucinate their reality by echo location. Chiropteric ectasy is a g...
I think I first encountered the blue flower in this James Hillman essay. In a botanical domain, Pothos refers to a ubiquitous house plant Epipremnum t...
This "meme" is singular, grand and objective. Its grandness comes from everything to which it is attached (potentially the entire universe). This meme...
Novalis (latin for "new land") started the blue flower meme. Is the Sawstika (Nazism) a kind of dark flower that grew out of the soil of German Romant...
All is bloom then and I have been struck mute (or possibly dumb). Despite my stupidity I speak and write as if it were an addiction (oh, words, justif...
Enjoyable rant but I'm afraid it simulates a poetic drive (ache) in me to break out of the constraints imposed by adherence to the stricter modes of r...
Searching for a better telling of the parable of the two-colored hat. It resembles the Blind Men and the Elephant. The end of John Godfrey Saxe's poem...
"Particles tend to dissipate more energy when they resonate with a driving force, or move in the direction it is pushing them, and they are more likel...
If we drop Bitter Crank into the Democratic Republic of Congo his fear will guide his reason in a spectacular way. The question is what does he know a...
Why isn't it immoral for parents to impose identity on their children then? They're just another form of coercion. It seems this is far more crucial t...
Evil carries with it a dangerous sense of absolute judgement, a word once used by ideological or theocratic tyrants to mark their enemies as targets. ...
What about the Allegory of the Ship, what with the steering wheel and the way finding and the division of labor. Whether you sail for God or the natio...
Maybe someone is making a wages versus salary distinction. Getting grades is on a per assignment point-based system so it resembles working for a wage...
Daniel Dennett warns against promoting the denial of free on the grounds that it has behavioral ramifications. If we invoke determinism as a justifica...
Actually we are rewarded for useful specialization in an industrial society. I may be able to be an architect of sorts but I cannot design a skyscrape...
Everything happens for a reason. Everything that happens, happens. Life has gone through a process to adapt to most stuff that happens in service of g...
This is how life began. Memes replicating in a thread over many millions of years blindly corroborating to swim against the flow of entropy. There are...
"The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it." ~ Mark Twain A tumble bu...
Questions and stances embedded in the OP stated for the sake of brevity: Do humans posses a capacity of autonomy regarding morally relevant decisions?...
I was sifting through this trash heap with CasKev and all I could find that I liked was a sparkly sequin. Also, there is something (an agent) hunting ...
Jordan Peterson distances himself from Campbell, since the latter became somewhat of a new-age guru. Whereas Campbell says 'walk through the gates pas...
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