the most upsetting thought-seed that keeps germinating in my mind, that I can't seem to shake or remove, is the idea that almost ALL of human behavior (outside of pure subsistence) is about playing games of social control. That it's so typical that most people don't even see it.
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That's true: "self-justifying" behavior varies from person to person. I agree that status games (which are very related to but subtly distinct from control) are baked deeply into the human brain. Status seems deeply tied to mating success, and thus is selected for...
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one of the example questions that bubbled up while I was thinking about this is "why do people enjoy sports spectatorship?" there's no lizard-brain hedonic explanation for that. if you'll forgive my amateur neuroscience, it seems like that's a whole lot of neocortex shit.
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Mirror neurons?
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say more please
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Aside from the tribal stuff involved in sports, watching professional athletes do a thing gives some of the same mental activity as actually doing the thing, via the so-called mirror neurons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_coding_theory …
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Weird that was entirely the wrong link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron …
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