Humans run on corrupted hardware: mental health. Trauma, depression, akrasia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia ), suicide, addiction to junk food, and many common mental health "illnesses" are most likely not illnesses. They are 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 that get activated.
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Abuse (sexual, physical, emotional) doesn't directly cause trauma in the same way as a knife wound causes a scar. Our brains are deliberately wired to go into a trauma-mode following abuse.
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I knew someone whose parents had the bright idea of showing them hardcore pornography when they were a young child. The result was a person who had trouble holding down a relationship and had a bunch of what we politely call "issues".
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I also recently met someone else with really serious anger "issues". Unsurprisingly they told me that they had been abused physically as a child.
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But it's important to remember that these "issues" are nature's way of adapting a person to what nature's best guess about the environment is.
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Zoom out a bit and think about it like this: your unconscious mind has been mercilessly optimized by evolution. It would probably be easier for the adult brain to have a personality that simply couldn't be "damaged" by abuse (a constant is simpler than a variable!) ...
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... so why aren't we like that? Because that wouldn't be optimal: the people who didn't adapt based on these signals were less able to survive and reproduce in the past.
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On food: the theory behind the so-called "Shangri-La diet" is basically that nice food triggers an adaptation in humans for us to gorge ourselves and put on fat, in a way that bland food doesn't.1 reply 0 retweets 19 likesShow this thread -
I'm not sure I entirely believe the diet & its theory, but it's worth noting that in the past being somewhat fat was likely highly adaptive, as that stored fat could be used to survive through harsh times (famine).
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
That's a complex question because it touches on sexual attractiveness versus survival and the trade-off is different for different life stages and is different for women and men and is different for women and men in a common environment that varies across groups.
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Plus there's a trade-off with ability to fight and perform physical tasks (although purely for fighting extra weight is usually an advantage - for example: the greatest hand-to-hand combatant of all time in his prime)pic.twitter.com/0wKdTYQlQD
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