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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      This is associational thinking. “If two things are associated, they’re basically the same, right?” It runs on clustering, not grammar; it can’t ask “in what *sense* are these things related?”

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    2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      To cluster-mind, words are magic. Enactive. To say a thing is to make it real. Going meta and thinking *about* the words is impossible. So of course criticism hurts if you’re stuck in this mode.

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    3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      This is related to the frame of mind where “okay”, “allowed”, “acceptable”, are felt to be primary objects in the world, not reducible to predictions like “these people will treat me this way in this context.”

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    4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      That’s a very scary headspace to be in; trying to describe it makes it sound like it’s a very severe mental illness; but it’s actually common among so-called “healthy” people. Heidegger got this.

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    5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      You actually feel like social opinions are ontological primaries, and things like atoms, tables, or even sense perceptions are abstractions *over* social judgments. It’s as spooky as it sounds.

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    6. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      We all use associational cognition constantly; we literally could not see if we didn’t. It’s not a “bad” mode of thought, it’s essential.

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    7. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      But using *exclusively* associational cognition *for interpreting language* is, I think, a flattened, contracted, degenerate state, relative to what human minds can do in general. Being “insecure” or “easily triggered” is *not* just due to having finite computational power.

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    8. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      The usual cynical explanation is that being “insecure” is a subconscious self-interested power move — “I precommit to getting upset unless you devote more resources to me.” But I think it’s actually even creepier than that.

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    9. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      I think it’s a selfish gene thing. A gene for being “triggerable” isn’t there to benefit the organism it’s in, but to benefit its *kin*, who also have the gene, and can benefit from having victims who are easier to abuse and manipulate.

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    10. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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      This is pure speculation on my part, but once I saw it I couldn’t unsee it. The selfish-gene figure-ground inversion applies to behavior too — which means not all your instinctual behaviors were evolved to benefit *you*. Some may be evolved to benefit your kin at your expense.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 15 Dec 2019
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      wait, I missed a step: how does being triggerable benefit kin?

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        2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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          The Wicked (not actually step-)Mother can get more work out of Cinderella if Cinderella fears her disapproval.

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        3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 15 Dec 2019
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          Also having a button you can push to enrage people makes them willing to fight wars and bring you the loot.

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