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blackbrook

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  • If emotions/feelings are notifications not instructions/orders, give an example of one emotion and what it notifies about?

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  • I would just make the general comment, in response to reading the various exchanges in this thread, that there is a lot of theory around this stuff, and yes there are studies that support some of it, but these theories are by no means something that should be taken as 'fact.' To the extent you find them useful in navigating the terrain they attempt to map, great, but I would avoid getting locked into these ideas in figuring out how to deal with emotions (your own or others) in real life.

  • If emotions/feelings are notifications not instructions/orders, give an example of one emotion and what it notifies about?

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  • A lot of different things can produce anger. Frustration can produce anger. Stress can produce anger.

    Often things that may be no one's fault (or no ones but your own) and yet it's often a natural reaction to direct that anger at whoever or whatever it's in front of you.

  • Google's reCAPTCHA Fails De-Googled Android Users, Impacting Privacy

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  • Those two things are not unrelated.

  • Pi day is behind us, but I don't care. What is your favorite pie, sweet or savory?

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  • You're not going to tell us anything about what kind of pie uses tinned ham?

  • Pi day is behind us, but I don't care. What is your favorite pie, sweet or savory?

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  • How to say you're from PA without saying you're from PA.

  • Do you think there would be less conflict in the world if the average intelligence went up 50%?

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  • I think what can be meant by intelligence is a whole complex of different things. So I think the answer depends on what exactly you mean by intelligence. If we focus in some of the aspects that might be called wisdom, or aspects that fall more under what's been called "EQ", the answer might be yes. If we mean what's typically measured by an IQ test, I'd say no.

  • Is it fashionable to keep something on your clothesline permanently?

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  • If you use proper clothes pins that have the socket they screw into you don't have that problem.

  • Is it fashionable to keep something on your clothesline permanently?

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  • Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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  • There could well be a kernel of valid criticism in it but this article is so exaggerated and strident, that I can't take it seriously. It's like people who scream GOVERNMENT WASTE about every budget line item that is not obviously important to someone who has only the most simple and ignorant understanding of it.

  • We're so back

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  • These are not studies on actual use on humans in the real world, it is on cells in a petri dish, so if you were to take from this "I don't need to vax or mask, I take CBD" you'd be just like the Invermectin crowd.

  • We're so back

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  • They grow natively everywhere. The internet speads fertilizer.

  • Did she just discover the root cause of schizophrenia? Or is this wrong?

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  • Cutting edge breakthroughs always appear on tiktok first.

  • Netflix adding unskippable ads on premium plan

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  • "If it's January, it's cold" doesn't imply it can't be cold in other months.

  • How do you conceive of your "self?"

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  • I have a number of answers to give you and will write more as I have time, but a start with some of the shorter ones.

    "The map is not the terrain" is a very important concept in general but especially so wrt the self. Your idea of your self is such a map, and as such is necessarily flawed and incomplete. A person is very complex, probably to complex to fully understand even if you had access to it. But you don't fully have access to it, even about your self.

    The complexities going into why you like a thing, why you react a certain way, sometimes why you do a thing, are not all inspectable to you. We have am enormous bias in modern culture to think of everything in terms of the conscious mind. This is usually incorrect. Most often we do things unconsciously and rationalize why we did it afterwards. Now these rationalizations may often be correct, and trivial. But the reality is that they are not observations about the workings of our mind but after the fact theories. In many non trivial cases they can be quite incorrect. (I can give examples, but this is getting long winded already.)

    Sometimes, with phenomena we have limited ability to know, it is helpful to let go, accept that they are what they are, and just see what they do without getting too committed to expectations. Like with the weather.

  • Magnolias

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  • Yeah that's part of what I don't know about. Or other transition points, like exiting the stomach. Not to mention actually swallowing it.

  • Magnolias

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  • Passing an avocado seed seems rough but doable. I don't know though, and I wouldn't want to find out the hard way.

  • What's the best insult without any swears?

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  • Did your mother have any children that lived?

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    Are some people losing their humanity in the age of AI?

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  • he has no goal, except the wish to escape insecurity and aloneness.

    And it's as if we keep refining our system to make those aims harder.

  • 🌕 Werewolf

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  • I found this painting on that site titled "Star Maker". Interestingly the scrawl that looks like "R J II" that I thought might be the artist's initials isn't in the painting there at all.

    (I called it a painting...but maybe it's a print?)