haha what if brains were so good at patterns that once you coerced one into suppressing its natural inclinations enough times it generalized that & started reflexively suppressing natural inclinations without even bothering to check if they're proscribed wouldn't that be a trip
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if that were possible you'd probably get them having to be juiced full of drugs just to act like anything were worth doing and it'd affect the ones best at patterns first and hardest, so that'd be pretty amazing
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Sorry if I ruin the joke but, are you talking about depression? It’s been associated with “learned hopelessness” and affects more intelligent people more
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i am! (the usual term of art there is “learned helplessness”)
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