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It’s incredibly surreal for a random biological function to affect emotions/mental content. 1/

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· May 14, 2021

Have any serious epistemologists talked about PMS? I'm guessing no, as philosophy is such a male-dominated field, plus this topic has been taboo. What about similar issues, like perception change when one hasn’t eaten nnnnnnnnnnn n?

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"random" 🤔

11:00 AM · Jan 5, 2022Twitter Web App

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We're animals, different behavior is appropriate in different circumstances, and if we try to structure our minds to suppress that this will result in predictable to others (but "random" from our perspective) errors.

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Jan 5

I used to get frequent, long, severe colds. One thing that shortened them a lot was being depressed when I had a fever instead of forcing normal behavior with antipyretics and stimulants. Then it became appealing to help the fever along with hot baths...

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Random in the sense that unless you’re keeping track, it happens at a random time. (Which makes it more alarming to experience.) Also in the sense that men don’t have it so it’s not needed to be human. And it was randomly evolved; nature could have gone another way.