No sensory organs (or pain receptors) inside the brain; so yeah, it is "impossible" for the brain to "feel" itself doing anything — 180 Proof
"What's the value of" hygiene or fitness (or any adaptive practice)?What's the value of knowledge? — Agent Smith
We are macro machines made up of trillions of micro machines "who" make and use macro machines which in various feedback modes re-make us. Or so it seems.[A]re we machines used by...? — Agent Smith
What's the value of hygiene or fitness (or any adaptive practice)? — 180 Proof
You homed in on a very important point. I congratulated you on it. You went berserk! — Agent Smith
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? — Nietzsche
↪Agent Smith For a post-Freudian/Jungian (woo), Nobel Prize winning scientific treatment of functional interactions between the un/subconscious and "conscious" meta/cognition, I recommend Daniel Kahneman's excellent Thinking, Fast and Slow. — 180 Proof
↪Joshs Enactivism (which was the focus of my graduate work) is not an "antidote" to prospect theory but, IME, a complementary model. — 180 Proof
Religion can be considered an interpretation of existence in reference to supernatural beings — Angelo Cannata
When science is seen as all important it can lead to people losing touch with the mythical aspects of thought and even scientific models may have mythical aspects too — Jack Cummins
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