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349 points zdw | 3 comments | 21 Oct 25 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zkmon ◴[21 Oct 25 05:58 UTC] No.45652907[source]▶
Undoing of the effects of excessive and unnecessary social guidance takes ages.

At some point through the times of civilizations, humans started having less work to do and more idle people around. The idle people started spending their time for preaching a life style other than what was evolved naturally through centuries and millennia. They redefined the meaning of health, food, comfort and happiness. The silliest thing they did was creating norms, redefining good and bad based on their perception of comfort and happiness and enforcing those norms on populations.

Human race continued to live under the clutches of perceptions from these free-thinking idle people whose mind worked detached from their bodies and thus lacked the knowledge gained from the millennia of human evolution.

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1. balamatom ◴[21 Oct 25 06:12 UTC] No.45652962[source]▶
You really think a sense of embodiment can be lost voluntarily?
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2. zkmon ◴[21 Oct 25 06:38 UTC] No.45653088[source]▶
Yes, when the mind is over-confident of it's education and perceptions, it starts to disobey the signals from body and force the body to follow what mind says. That's when the mind loses the support of knowledge encoded in the body, the knowledge which wass collected through evolution.

The mind tries to compensate the loss with experimentation that can't undergo the same extent of evolution. Then it dictates body to follow the results of these puny and tiny experiments, and ignores the rich knowledge already encoded in the body.

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3. balamatom ◴[21 Oct 25 16:14 UTC] No.45657602[source]▶
>when the mind is over-confident of it's education and perceptions, it starts to disobey the signals from body and force the body to follow what mind says.

Isn't that one of the fundamental things being taught to nascent minds as a prerequisite to participating in society -- starting the earliest stages of development, at which point neither one's mind nor one's body really has much of a say in the matter?