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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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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I don't think I'm qualified to distinguish between which specific parts of the brain motivate my behaviors, but sports spectatorship seems to me like an ecstatic group affirmation, e.g. 2 Minutes Hate in 1984. Not sure how old of a behavior "tracking group status" is.
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