"man is a social animal" sounds all fluffy bunnies but what it means is that there are deep structures in your brain that try to kill you if your perception of your social status is too low. in Dunbar-number-sized social groups most people could clear this bar. most now can't
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Replying to @chaosprime
It's just not very clear how brain structures try to kill us.
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Replying to @carolinejamhour
it's not the clearest thing ever, no, but it looks like depression
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Replying to @chaosprime @carolinejamhour
The formulation seems backwards to me... it’s like saying there’s something in our body that tries to kill us if we don’t get enough food or water. Maybe technically true (?) but it seems like a strange way to describe what’s happening.
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Replying to @mattdiamond @carolinejamhour
your car stops running when it runs out of gas; that's like hunger and thirst. if, instead, your car's gas tank was rigged with a bomb that exploded when it fell below 20% capacity, you could compare that to hunger and thirst, but the comparison would be highly suspect
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my claim is that the phenomenon under discussion is more like the bomb
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Replying to @chaosprime @carolinejamhour
Is there a specific reason you think it’s more like the bomb example than the deprivation of a resource? Is it because socialization doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that could be “stored” and therefore the pain must be self-inflicted?
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Sorry, I think I might be conflating social support with social status, which is why I’m conceptualizing it differently. My bad.
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oh, gotcha, that makes sense
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