On experiencing transcendent joy from science, and conflicting emotions around this:
ldeming.posthaven.com/transcendent-j
Very draft-y, mostly posting b/c interested in discussion.
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Tried to write some responses, failed utterly to be coherent, but look forward to making sense through conversation next time we stroll
Same. I kind of can see from far away what this feeling would be but it sounds like an order of magnitude more rich than anything I can feel
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The first time I felt like someone could empathize with this rapturous feeling was actually one of your tweets, twitter.com/andy_matuschak: "a sense of having traced the seams of the universe"
The second was a piece of fiction
Laura's post a third
All written within a year
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Replying to @andy_matuschak and @metaLulie
What’s the motivation to do work at all? Wonder at discovery; feeling of power at having shaped something out of nothing; a sense of having traced the seams of the universe; memory of satisfaction for past achievements; excitement for what’s possible.
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