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On the "feel the experience": Pain is just something evolution implemented to make you avoid certain stuff. Extreme heat and cold are painful to us because it's bad for us, those of us who didn't feel pain from that simply died. Pain is your nerves firing into areas of your brain that trigger certain reactions, like undoing what you just did (pulling back your hand from that hot thing), as well as conditioning you not to repeat what you just did. Maybe even some adrenaline etc.
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On the "feel the experience": Pain is just something evolution implemented to make you avoid certain stuff. Extreme heat and cold are painful to us because it's bad for us, those of us who didn't feel pain from that simply died. Pain is your nerves firing into areas of your brain that trigger certain reactions, like undoing what you just did (pulling back your hand from that hot thing), as well as conditioning you not to repeat what you just did. Maybe even some adrenaline etc.
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I don't think humans feel pain in another way than ants do.
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I don't think humans feel pain in another way than ants do.
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The same applies to basically any other emotion. Singing, making or hearing music feels good because our brain is programmed to reward us for that. Back in the ancient days, those groups that employed music survived better because of more cooperation, which carved music as something good into our brains. I don't feel self-aware when feeling pain or listening to music. In fact i feel how instincts take over in these situations and i have less control over myself, i don't think that corresponds to self-awareness.
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The same applies to basically any other emotion. Singing, making or hearing music feels good because our brain is programmed to reward us for that. Back in the ancient days, those groups that employed music survived better because of more cooperation, which carved music as something good into our brains. I don't feel self-aware when feeling pain or listening to music. In fact i feel how instincts take over in these situations and i have less control over myself, i don't think that corresponds to self-awareness.
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I'd
say
it's
more
about
noticing
yourself
thinking,
observing
yourself
if
you
will.
But
what
step
is
it
from
observing
others
to
observing
yourself?
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I'd
say
it's
more
about
noticing
yourself
thinking,
observing
yourself
if
you
will.
But
what
step
is
it
from
observing
others
to
observing
yourself?
Are
our
lives
different
because
we
are
self-aware?
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But I don't think we'll be able to hit the nail on what exactly self awareness is, generations of philosophists have tried before us.
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But I don't think we'll be able to hit the nail on what exactly self awareness is, generations of philosophists have tried before us.
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