A rational person relies on well-trained feelings about their thoughts, an irrational person relies on well-trained thoughts about their feelings. Many rationalists are sincerely trying to be deeply irrational people, which makes them adorable.
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Replying to @Plinz
well trained feelings? if you could train your feelings they wouldn't be feelings.
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Replying to @HermiThrushSing
No, your feelings are just valenced geometrical encodings of various aspects of your situation as interpreted by the perceptual mind. Of course they need to be trained.
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Replying to @Plinz
I appreciate this extreme abstraction and find it interesting. But let me know if you find the person who controls their feelings successfully. (note: a clear definition of "feelings" is an absolute requirement)
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Replying to @HermiThrushSing @Plinz
it's not about controling - it's about training. I don't control my dog, I wouldn't want to. But I can train him, to enable bahavior that is beneficial for him and me.
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If you accept that feelings are interpretations, you are not trying to control them, you train them to be more accurate.
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more accurate to what? a friend dies and I am very sad. should I be sadder? not as sad? what's the benchmark of accuracy?
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Your sadness is a complex emotion, it encodes what place your friend was occupying in your relationship to the universe and yourself.
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