Some people feel our human experience is diminished if we understand how it works cognitively, particularly in the case of love & art.
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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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