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@Root situation: you touched something hot and got a burn
- First layer: *pain*
- Second layer: *fight or flight response, also makes your heart beat faster*
- Third layer: “Fuuuuck, it’s so bad that I burned myself” -
@Root generalizing, the first layer (the “reptile brain”) is responsible for reflexes, secretion and sensory experiences, the second one (the “monkey”, “labrador” or “mammal” brain) curates emotions and generally feeling of “good” and “bad”, subconscious feelings, the third one creates _you_ and is responsible for thoughts, ideology, worldview, feeling of “right”, “wrong” and anything in between.
Third layer can’t feel physical pain. It’s pain is guilt, sorrow, sense of wrongdoing or being helpless.
Second layer’s pain is fear.
Third layer’s pain is, well, pain -
@NickyBones people tend to find excuses for their emotions, not the other way around. The mammal brain is physically bigger and has much more neurons. Strictly speaking, in terms of neuron quantity, we are more mammals than we are reptiles or humans.
Transhumanism postulates that neuron quantity is not all that matters and teaches how to tame your inner mammal in non-destructive way by changing the context and avoiding certain situations. Like so, I trained myself to always give two responses: emotional and rational.
Matter of fact, my “triggers per month” metric (yes, I count it) dropped a whopping 80 percent, benzodiazepines consumption also dropped a lot -
They’re not! @kiki shut up! This is wrong on every level.
Please IGNORE this rant and whatever was said by me here.
Today is the official Kiki Day — a whole year passed since I discovered that a human is three separate coexisting entities that are physically divided by brain layers (they're three of them), so
1. my seven years old search for a perfect ideology had no sense whatsoever
2. when your feelings contradict each other, you may give two separate answers: one from neocortex (e.g. what you call "yourself") and one from the second layer (e.g. "emotional response")
If you for example dislike women but happen to be in a position that implies hiring people, say "even though I don't feel emotionally comfortable around women, they are equal to myself, so my emotions shouldn't influence my rational decisions".
To some extent, this very mindset is what I can call "kiki".
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