Volker on Nostr: Yes, I still do. It doesn't alter my physical experience, that one is too immediate. ...

Yes, I still do. It doesn't alter my physical experience, that one is too immediate. It did give me a new understanding about the importance of society, as one of the feedback mechanisms needed to adjust a brain to its environment. Without other people, you(r brain) is simply a reaction machine that's fed input from outside and inside sensors. It encorporates learned patterns over short timeframes (the higher the pain, the quicker the learning), and thus adapts itself to function properly in a given world. With exposure to others, that learning expands to incorporate feedback from other individuals in other circumstances. But the learning is relatively low and shallow, because of the lower pain levels. So long term, culture teaches our brain the collective knowledge of everyone, which is quite significant, because it takes place - for the most part - without individuals dying all the time, like they do in evolutionary processes.

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