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So that’s one way to define true and false as they apply to feelings: if they feel good but lead us to do things that aren’t really good for us, then they’re false feelings. But there’s another sense in which feelings can be true or false. Some feelings, after all, are more than feelings; they don’t just imply judgments about whether doing certain things will be good for the organism; they come with actual, explicit beliefs about things in the environment and how they relate to the organism’s welfare. Obviously, such beliefs can be true or false in a pretty straightforward sense.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
You want to win because YOU WANT TO! And if you lose, Coach Cael would simply say “You didn’t want it enough.”
Lessons From Cael Sanderson - Wrestling Mindset
Wrestling Mindset
You ought to try balancing them more. Why is that ‘I’ so important? Why can't you just drift peacefully through the universe with the knowledge you aren't that same ‘I’ anymore?” “Because that conscious ‘I’ is integral to my life—and also because you used the word 'knowledge' in that last sentence, Zoe. How can there be knowledge without something conscious and organized to conceive of it? That part of ourselves always needs to be retained and safeguarded to let us know that life and existence are happening.” “But it's all happening in one way or the other, whether you know it or not.” “Possibly, but I don't give a damn about any part I don't know about. The unconscious quantum world is death to me. I choose not to see it because it's not worth seeing.”
The Transhumanist Wager
Zoltan Istvan
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