Quelklef

milk consumer

girly but not a girl

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Quelklef
@Quelklef

this question has been haunting me for some time. being a member of a social system i feel a duty for the opinions i hold to be developed in some responsible manner, for some suitable definition of responsible


Quelklef
@Quelklef

ive always been curious about emotion. some years back while doing i discovered a paper introducing a framework for understanding emotion. this framework was called conceptual act theory (whose acronym was, yes, CAT), and as i recall[1] the main idea was that an emotion is a cognitive response to a physical state.

for instance. feeling tense in your body, and also just had your partner do something they know you don't like? cognitively you might interpret this as anger. on the contrary, feeling tense in your body and sitting in the waiting room for a job interview? anxious.

so i found this paper interesting and the ideas have stuck around in my mind. in fact, i believe this paper has impacted how i view my own emotion

thing is, this absorption happened without doing any real critical analysis of the paper's framework first. i did not look for response articles; did not really discuss with other people; i also did not really question whether the framework makes sense in my own life and for my own emotions

it was just, wow, this feels really good in my brain, and in it goes

a picture of my cat sitting in an empty box of cup ramen, looking at the camera

again i wouldnt say i fault myself for it. i dont even think id say this is "bad" or to be avoided. but it is certainly a state of affairs with consequences

[1]: i can't find the paper now =(


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in reply to @Quelklef's post:

i used to (still do) get so discouraged by people saying dumb shit because some part of me assumed that if they were confident enough in their opinion to publish it in some way then clearly they had put an amount of thought and intention into it that i perceived as insurmountably greater than what i was capable of, and thus it was an authoritative statement that trumped my own opinion even if i thought it was dumb

i've tried to lower my personal standards a bit as it's become clear to me that many (most?) people will just say dumb shit because they wanted to and that i also have this human right

put another way, as someone told me recently, "only textbooks need resemble textbooks"