To piggy back:
I’ve wondered how the brain works. Like I get the electrochemical process more or less, but like, how? why? How’d central nervous systems develop? How do animals like jellyfish operate? Strange things are afoot at the circle k man.
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There are multiple departments in pretty much every major university trying to answer your question… they haven’t found one yet… we’re in for a long wait
but can you cum
As of yet, no but I wouldn’t be surprised if I experience sexual pleasure in a dream before I do in real life
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You’re in a good place for those answers though. I’ve gone down there to participate in a couple of brain studies when my brothers wife was a research asst.
Smart people doing some very interesting things.
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I love listening to smart ppl talk about themselves. Fortunately for me, a lot of smart ppl also love to talk about themselves
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I like hearing about stuff they’ve done or are doing. My one buddy has some incredible stories about practicing medicine. Like “One time during a heart transplant…”.
From the primordial ooze - duh!!!
Is it really so hard to believe that life as we know it developed by accident or chance?
(For me, the answer is yes. I can’t believe that silliness.)
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That’s the thing man … the primordial ooze argument is about as nuanced as the Eve made out of Adam’s rib allegory … it’s a non-explanation, a deferment of sorts.
Like, The Big Bang Theory - cool, all matter in the Universe was once a singular-hyper dense point that exploded. Why? How? What was the catalyst? How’d that lead to me typing my thoughts (which really, to my understanding, are just electrochemical impulses) to a screen to an faceless being reading it on another screen an undisclosed distance (and time) away…
Here’s another one I wonder … so, my sense of self is really just an interpretation of synergistic organic systems working together to make sure the thing controlling everything (my brain, me, really) gets enough of its wants and needs met to sustain the perspective it has convinced itself that is the optimal perspective…I’m probably not even explaining it that accurately, but this is just an off the cuff thing
I wonder how many of those who delve deep into complicated programs, nutrition, and other nuances at the end just give up analyzing, realize and say “just lift bro” or “just eat bro”
And if they do, I wonder how long it takes them to get to that point
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I don’t know that I agree. Really, how many readers have no idea that Shakespeare and Steinbeck exist?
I think the reason is that like so many good-for-you choices, you have to decide it and then follow through. “I would like to be intellectually well-rounded” is not different from “I would like to be strong and fit” or “I would like to eat well rather than conveniently” or “I would like to be debt-free, with savings.”
What people who don’t make these choices fail to realize is the tremendous reward. Who knew that these musty old books could be laugh aloud funny, or contain stuff that made the teenage me blush? Sex and love affairs! Back then! (I’m looking at you, Henry James.)
I’ve always viewed reading as I do eating. Plenty of room for sweets, which I would consider genre stuff (romance, or Dean Koontz or Ludlum, say) but there also needs to be meat and potatoes (contemporary literary fiction) and of course, of COURSE, the veggies, which I consider the classics.
All are delicious in my opinion. If I find myself getting too lazy, I adjust my diet.
Which sort of speaks to this, actually. But, as I’ve said today in another thread, some of it is ignorance of reward.
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This one just has a starting point. God created man and then woman. That’s where I start and end. All the thoughts and the voice we hear in our head is our soul. The rest of my body is just a temporary vessel (even referred to as a tent in some versions of the bible).
I know enough to know that I’m not capable of answering the question that follows: Who created God? Ultimately, we will never find the starting point or catalyst for all of this. And some people will never know the ‘why’ behind their existence.
You know what I ponder? I wonder if animals have a sense of self awareness like us. Do they know they’re hungry? They react to danger but to they actually perceive it and realize what’s about to happen when being pursued by a predator?
My guess is that they don’t. If they did then we wouldn’t see those videos of zebras and other animals crossing a river in Africa when they can freaking see the alligators/crocodiles waiting for them.
But then I see the domestic side of animals. They crave and respond to human attention. They show fear, anxiety, and joy. I don’t understand it.
I have never thought of it this way, but I like the analogy.
In my field (engineering) not many of my coworkers seem to have branched out into reading literature. This may be do to our analytical nature and desire for facts instead of contemplation (obviously, I am generalizing but it’s what I have seen). My wife mentions a lot how she is impressed that I am both well read and analytical by nature. Maybe it’s a rare trait, I don’t know.
you gotta believe that you will! if you want it, seek it out. that’s all. can’t exactly get nsfw on here, but check out reddit. plenty of people there.
To be thought of highly by others is probably not a goal worthy of much resources/effort/etc.
Ignoring what people think of you is not the same though.
Not noticing what people think of you can be costly or beneficial, depending on … stuff
Be careful with the conscious, subconscious, semiconscious and what you plant in there. It/you could do bad things without even noticing, or barely noticing, passively without the willpower to change/prevent.
The subconscious is running the show most of the time and you do not want to change that fact. Rather than the conscious overriding the subconscious or having them battle, you want them working together, calibrating each other towards “higher” or “more useful” values, habits, blah blah
My opinions. I understood what you meant, but I still had to share. Hope this helps someone, somewhere, eventually
You’re taken as seriously as you take yourself. There’s no secret formula.
It makes me very sad to have that said by a young woman in 2019.
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I generally read what I consider interesting or entertaining. I won’t read anything only because I think I ‘should’ read it; like it’s good for me. I read a lot and always have but it’s my escape not my education. Having access to library books on-line to download has led me down a few interesting rabbit holes though.
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This has been answered, mostly, and it’s yes and no. Some gorillas can communicate in sign language, recognize themselves in mirrors, and are aware of their existence. Dolphins, other apes, etc. have passed the mirror test. Animals can absolutely be aware of their own existence, but most aren’t.
I was gonna say, I don’t know how we are drawing parallels between addictive behaviors and taking women seriously in the workplace, but I know somewhere, someone is using something just as ridiculous as an excuse not to. Rats will choose drugs over food until they starve to death. Some humans are no different. Agreed - a sad statement.
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Not sure how robust y’alls library apps are up there in America’s hat, but the one I use, or is used by my local library leaves a lot to be desired. I think I have about 2 dozen “recommendations” hanging out there like a hitchhiker’s thumb - I know people see it, but here I am, just a-waitin’
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