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Evolution and Emotions, cultures

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Index note measure pain/pleasure scales; national happiness unmeasurable; "Sociology is scientific"

Earth, has over time, imagine all that time is 1 day, and in past few seconds, a form of human rapidly came into existence, from cellular form, to macro-being, a conscious system. And recently, within these forms, at present robotic beings are emerging, with extension from carbon life to silicon life which is controllably generated by carbon life. Existing carbon life forms were generated (how ?)

Human beings feel pleasure, pain, along with other sensations.
Measuring quantitatively each of them (might not have a linear scale as there are multiforms of pleasure and pain signals). For e.g. getting pricked by a needle vs scathed to many centimeters while dragged down by asphalt , leg broken after hit by a speeding heavy vehicle, both will provide different sensations to the form, one in which damage is minimal, i.e. along the needle, to another, where death occurring after extreme pain.

Apart from these, there can be other attributes of human, such as happiness level, depression levels, and all forms of emotions, which can be monitored. And entire psychological health on planet Earth would be accumulation of it all. There is constant pleasure seeking adventures going on, as well as painful and traumatizing war. While constantly new ideas are being formed, while some of the old ideas and memories fade away.

While for most people, to avoid insanity, believing in something becomes important, while some people may equate the ideas of loss with gain, or sacrifice with reward, or war with love, and so on. Such a belief may restrict people and put them at a wrong stop in society, constrained and programmed to stagnate their existence.

In all, a true measure of happiness of a country cannot be derived from asking, as the response function often hides the true value inside it, and could be completely off, as one cannot express their true internal state. In the same manner, state of population, in its true form can only be ideally assumed to be in some state. Currently, I don’t know how one will ever know it all.

One can imagine the attributes with scales from numb, little, small, normal, big, extreme, ultra extreme intensities of pain, pleasure, happiness, sadness, devotion, focus, disillusionment, knowledge, etc. And entire life experience can then be summarized or represented, and one day all humans can learn to control their emotions, or tune to whats desired, a life skill which can be learnt in real life through a kind of thinking mechanism that puts the emotions in brain in certain state. although, its a mystery how emotions arise in brain, but it can be assumed (I think) that the pattern is associated with emotions and is universal (speculating or guessing, but there would be some studies which might give same inference). As a being grows, not even explosions dither the mind from its concentration, which can just be called numbness for certain patterns of sensory inputs. All of this can be ofc imagined in spiking networks for brain, however, what affects which, and which parts are active requires measurement. Gonna take some time for that technology to develop as I don’t see one sitting next to me.

Apart from emotions, along evolution, physical form also grew. Although, the will to live of a person in present depends on its past experiences and met future expectations (i.e. expectations that would be real, lets see all time as one in 4d space). Tacking these challenges is crucial for health and wellbeing, for growth, and current pace in the world seems that only way to go about is to have a new being created at the cost of dying old being. Although, again, depending on past experiences, those will remain who will have lost their parents once, or never saw it… much as like how universe itself formed, ..leading to life, and individual beings, a mystery.

Note: whatever written in this post is based on imagined ideas based on what was felt in moment (which can of course be real or just ideas, and one can feel the real thing, or have a false feeling about something,.. I’m not so confident right now, but I know there is certain state of mind where truth and clarity is all existing, as once for the same ideas I used to feel confident, maybe I’m just tired of repeating the same universal stuff according to me in my head)

However, all states of emotions and diversity is captured in cultures and ethnicities. Different groups of ethnicities possess different cultures, and way of looking at things can be depending on the culture, of course there is obvious all-encompassing diversity within each culture, as all cultures are bound by certain same principles such as birth, death, progeny, survival, living etc. which is in turn dependent on underlying layer of human emotions, desires, need etc. Although all humans should behave fundamentally similar, and they do, but on psychological level cultural differences can be seen, as these are due to upbringing although some could be genetic. For e.g. a gene that makes humans or mammals aggressive, or calm, etc. (Everything is linked, in certain way, and this is one of the important principles of knowledge). And higher level societal behaviors are governed based on these and other interactions. Sociology is scientific.

Human consciousness, human physical form, human mental upbringing -> behavior personality and expression. That is, one needed to simulate, they would need to incorporate these models, to simulate behavior. A neural network can just learn the pattern based on data, and produce more criss-cross plausible patterns. But based on for e.g. intensities of emotions, and its state, and also physical form and upbringing, behavior is subjective. One needs to go to another culture and observe the differences they find, and think deeply about the seeking and reasoning of why things are the way they are and why they happen as they are, and what must be understood and taken in control, and what must be relinquished, that is to navigate these, to live the journey or reach a goal, as existence is forever till it lasts. Non-existence is nothing, as the entity or thing that has ceased to exist does not have place in this universe, however, we don’t know but presumably, souls are thought to be eternal, and one might ofc. have a different life because of beliefs, that cannot be proven, I’m not all-knowing, but I have to write it here for hints on what to think on next.

Clarity in all knowing is important, I didn’t pay attention to it for some moment, or I was just busy experiencing normal things to avoid the saturating nature of these thoughts. Remember, universality is the thing that will never go away. Gravity, Light, .. forever exists, as long as universe does. In an effort to understand the universe, after feeling I had clarity, now I feel lost and doubtful at times, or just disinterested. Although this is a blog, and has personal touch to reading, so would require distillation of thoughts and written works to make it neutral for learning. I just write as the stream of ideas come in my head. No revisions. Mostly. Flow of thought.

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