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What's your best definition of suffering?

4:31 AM · Jan 1, 2021

Geoffrey Miller

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Sentient organisms experiencing fitness-reducing scenarios.

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Jonathan "Grandmother Fish" Tweet

@JonathanMTweet

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a nervous system generating negative feedback for its self

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Pain that cannot be ignored.

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J.D. Haltigan, PhD

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Should specify physical or mental. Key.

@jeremymstamper

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Watching Andy Cohen

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Any difference between preferences (about how the world should be) and beliefs (about how the word is).

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I was thinking about this earlier today... I concluded the worst suffering would involve three things: 1) physical pain 2) not being able to focus clearly on anything else 3) not being able to understand/solve the problem

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pain from which no new strategies can be birthed

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Happy New year to you too!

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Michael Ashcroft

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Accidentally treading on one of these in the dark.

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Michael Ashcroft

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Everyone else is going for the serious reply and I just couldn't bring myself to join them.

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