If the parts of our personalities are just that - parts - and you cut some away, does that mean they attach themselves to the next person, parasite-style?
Well i guess for that to literally happen you would have to subscribe to the idea of a collective conciousness, though admittedly there does seem to be a fair lack of distinction from one person to the next in a bigger picture sense i don't really believe we are all that intimately linked. course in a more environmental type setting whereby a deficiency in a certain personality trait may well mean susceptibility to emotional pressures then that may cause a person to adopt said detached trait in order to better cope with a new pressure from society, a lack of diversity and survival of the fittest in a psychological sense maybe.
i just like to think that they go to the island of lost personality bits.
There was an experiment carried out between two neighbouring islands upon which the same species of monkeys lived and hadn't experienced human contact before. While observing the monkeys on one island, one of the infants tried washing a certain type of food they'd previously been unable to eat in the stream that led out to the ocean. The adult monkeys, seeing this, suddenly had access to a new food supply. It was only when all the monkeys on this first island had learned the ability that those on the second island began to divine the same notion.
That was what i meant sort of. But if that is the case then what is necessary to illicit that experience? How does one get designated as the ground breaker and why doesn't the collective conciousness maintain a status quo. Oh and why is 80% of people so ignorant? Too many questions i know.
The other example of this I read was that there was a lottery in both the north and south of florida, run on separate days. North and south weren't informed that the results would be the same. The first lottery ran, there were a few winners, the second lottery ran and the amount of winning-picked-numbers was far greater. I think the idea of collective consciousness is that once an idea is thought of, it then goes into the collective consciousness and is available, then, to to everyone, but it's not as though it's immediately downloaded into everyone's brains. But then this begs the question; chicken, or egg?
Course the lottery could be explained by the fact that people lack originality and decided to pick numbers that had already won elsewhere and therefore they were luckier than others. Also if we have a collective conciousness why do we hate each other so much? Is it because we hate ourselves?
Ahh, but the winning numbers weren't broadcasted. And I think inherently we do hate ourselves; our at least parts of ourselves. It's why advertising is so godawfully effective; all of our flaws are pointed out to us and the solutions are at a supermarket near YOU at LOW LOW PRICES.
Yes but i hold out hope that people are smart enough to resent the fact that there is a cure for everything and the question is only how much it will cost. I wonder where my soul is currently on sale, i lost track of that a while ago.
But then there's always the chance that you and I and all of us are just a series of protein strings and neural synapses and that there's no one out there that cares about us more than we do.
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i just like to think that they go to the island of lost personality bits.
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But then this begs the question; chicken, or egg?
(I like omelettes)
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I like french toast. Oh but crepes are also nice.
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