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Would you prefer that your mood and emotions were decoupled from stuff like hormones and hunger and other biophysical things, and were instead linked only to your beliefs and goals and perceptions?

Absolutely yes
33.7%
I think so
29%
I don't think so
26.4%
Absolutely not
10.8%

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7:59 PM · Dec 27, 2019

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If that happened sex, love, and many other pleasant things would no longer make me happy

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We're animals and those chemical, hormonal and physiological things make us more than cold logical calculators

Radical Stoic Mindfulness

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Good news, they are

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This implies that our beliefs/goals/perceptions are not at least somewhat tied to our biophysics.

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Is it possible to decouple your goals/beliefs/perceptions from biology?

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I do not believe in mind-body dualism.

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I think so. Removing a set of variables would make it easier to focus on what’s really wrong, and how to potentially fix it.

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But then how could I use things like eating healthy and exercising to improve my mood. Or are you suggesting I should just be a fat happy sloth?

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Sometimes, but part of me (not the most rational and coldly logical part) doesn't like the idea and finds it depressing.