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| ====== Awake: Chapter 14 Notes ====== | ====== Awake: Chapter 14 Notes ====== |
| ==== Chapter 14. Emotions ==== | |
| I hated this chapter. I don't think emotions are either important or unimportant. They're brain noise, just like thoughts. Sometimes they're useful, often they're the product of a system that evolved long ago and that doesn't understand the modern world. It's doing its best to help but a lot of the time it leads us astray because it's assumptions are based on life in a small group that lives in a cave. | I hated this chapter. I don't think emotions are either important or unimportant. They're brain noise, just like thoughts. Sometimes they're useful, often they're the product of a system that evolved long ago and that doesn't understand the modern world. It's doing its best to help but a lot of the time it leads us astray because it's assumptions are based on life in a small group that lives in a cave. |
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| This bit is confusing and I don't want to highlight three paragraphs. Is the primordial truth helplessness? That would fit with my view. In my original Kobo note I wrote: | This bit is confusing and I don't want to highlight three paragraphs. Is the primordial truth helplessness? That would fit with my view. In my original Kobo note I wrote: |
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| > He doesn't say what primordial truth. It's death. We know we die. | >> He doesn't say what primordial truth. It's death. We know we die. |
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| I believe that the thing we spend our whole life running from is... helplessness. I wouldn't have used that word a few minutes ago but it fits very nicely. We know we will die and we are helpless to do anything about it. We know everything we love will die (change) and we are helpless to do anything about it. We know we have almost no control over anything and we are helpless to do anything about it. | I believe that the thing we spend our whole life running from is... helplessness. I wouldn't have used that word a few minutes ago but it fits very nicely. We know we will die and we are helpless to do anything about it. We know everything we love will die (change) and we are helpless to do anything about it. We know we have almost no control over anything and we are helpless to do anything about it. |
