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Cyberneticist's avatar

Great title and I’d like to add that death is inevitable.

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Ella's avatar

They way we train ourselves is the same way we most commonly train our animals, which is through a predominately negative-reinforcement model rather than a +R one. Which is loss aversion. We do it because we believe in original sin, in punishment, in our own innate un-enoughness and supposed evil base nature as situated in christianity/puritanism/capitalism and the assumed natural greed of humans so often used as justification for it. Etc. etc. But we are not evil and we are not bad, at our cores. We turn toward the sun.

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