Some people feel our human experience is diminished if we understand how it works cognitively, particularly in the case of love & art.
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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(Hofstadter being a scientist who wrote several books on trying to understand the brain.)
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Not sure I agree with him!
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