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  • Citizenschallenge-v.3 replied to the topic On Discussing the Self in the forum General Discussion 5 years ago

    Misery isn’t a choice.

    Okay you have a point, we are biochemical beings.

    Your words are taking it way past our grade scale, time to turn to professionals.  One on one, not via Google.  Though there’s a lot of information there.

    Brains, genes and chemical imbalances – how explanations of mental illness affect stigma
    July 8, 2014

    https://theconversation.com/brains-genes-and-chemical-imbalances-how-explanations-of-mental-illness-affect-stigma-28324

    The Medical Biochemistry of Poverty and Neglect
    Peter J Hotez

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4374519/

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    “Meaning is not even close to actual reality.”

    At first I was “oh Pleazzee.”

    So I reread it a few times, chewing on it so to speak.

    I thought I’d ask you to explain it.

     

    Then I finally realized that it’s a perfect example, of my whole Missing Key to NOMA thing.

    There is Physical Reality, such as the fact that Earth created us, we are a transitory product of that Earth.

    A very special one, but still . . .

    We exist here because something very very special happened in this solar system and then on this planet in particular.

    “We” is our individual and collective Human Mindscapes, experiencing the flood of incoming sensory information, as we go through our lives.

    Physical Reality  v.  Mindscape

     

    Meaning is not even close to actual reality!  You’re just pissed off that reality doesn’t care what you think.

     

    Xian, I’ve asked you before have you ever read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig?

    If you have what did you think?

    If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?  🙂