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I think people would only fulfill their base instincts. There's no consistency to what makes you feel good/bad, so you can't learn from your experiences. Consistent reactions create social norms. Prisons only "work" as a deterrent because people don't want to be in them, and illegality only exists because we can claim through shared experience that some actions are objectively bad.

If your emotional state was entirely independent of what you do, then why bother doing anything that doesn't serve your immediate survival?

Considering happiness is all about chemicals been released in body and been controlled by hormones and a million other things, this is partially true. Your genetics can screw you up and can make you an unhappy person for life. And there are things like dopamine depletion. You cannot just be happy forever unless you are a junkie.

@brennholz If you don't have any control over your emotional state, then maybe there are other meaningful things that could motivate us. Like doing the pragmatic or logical thing rather than just following emotions. I don't think emotions being out of the picture would lead to only decisions concerning basic instincts and survival.

@metamorphosis, many philosophers do acknowledge that happy and sad times will come and go whether you like it or not. But I find that if you live on the fringes of empires, there is a feeling that a lot of your fortune is out of your hands.

Indeed, I dislike the photos I make more often than not, but the very process of taking photos is very satisfying and you can put a thousand of philosophical meanings in it.

Yes, there are many times more bad photos than good ones. But if you enjoy the process and your tools it's a very nice way to spend an afternoon.

i love looking through your photography!

Killer robots are not so far away. They are just not in the shape of humanoid skeletons. They are mostly drones. A flying killer robot is a scarier idea to me.

In Terminator 2 there were flying killer drones. Which are already here and used by almost all modern militaries.

Chamber of secrets is the best book because it's the only book where Harry Potter's life goes miserably wrong. It's the only book no-one talks about because Harry Potter's life goes miserably wrong. For the record I only read the first 4 books so maybe there's other books like that.

I assumed that his life went miserably wrong when someone murdered his parents and it has been a downhill road since then. Then again I only have a vague idea that this story is about wizards and stuff.

david wong - one of my fave bloggers from ye olde internetz

i always love your writing, but this post especially really resonated with me. im not sure if its my culture or upbringing or what but you are so correct, the focus on everything as transaction and wealth building is so divorced from my own understanding of what matters in my life and my relationships to others, even strangers.