That there is something cold & 'soulless' in analysing & mapping out what it is that produces our most defining & powerful experiences.
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I understand it feels that way to them but think they fail to appreciate that understanding ourselves can also be powerfully moving to many.
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Thinking purely on a psychological level. The fact that there are truths to be discovered & this matters in its own right is separate.
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Its a mistake to think that ppl who like human nature to be ineffable don't value truth or ppl who like to work it out are unmoved by it.
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It's a simple truth that people are moved & satisfied by different things.The most Vulcan-like among us are still excited & awed by humanity
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Sometimes people think coz I like evolutionary psychology, I want to 'reduce' everything to biology, make it smaller & less impressive. No.
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Aside from the fact that I think it's the best evidenced approach to psychology that we have & gets us closest to understanding ourselves...
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...it's also deeply satisfying in that it doesn't limit us to humans who exist now but links us to all life & millions of yrs of history.
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Many people like to look forward in terms of where we are going - progress of reason & science and/or transhumanism - I'm a historian.
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I've always been more interested in where we came from & why we are how we are tho I recognise that thinking of the future is more important
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OK, but I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that some things are actually pretty damn complicated.
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Absolutely not. We may never know many things. I'm thinking more generally psychologically now.
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I think you think I'm retreating into mysticism when I express skepticism that we're close to fully understanding thought.
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I don't. I don't know how close we are to fully understanding thought. I don't think this is a mystical question.
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Also, I am not talking about you. I'm thinking generally of different psychologies which want to understand & want not to understand.
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I don't think you fit into the 'want not to understand' category at all. You get annoyed by people who claim to understand 2 simplistically
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I suspect you would be disappointed if we could map out & explain everything biologically tho whereas I would find this exciting & moving.
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I remember Douglas Hofstadter writing that he'd be very disappointed if we understood the brain any time soon.
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An art historian gets more from a painting than I, as she understands the symbolism, techniques, and context better.
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