Just read the following article:
Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure
Modern life can be a perpetual debilitating state of anxiety. Hunter-gatherers and the "stress" they deal with is of a different nature to the stress that we often feel. Any "stress" hunter-gathers felt would presumably have been short lived. Escaping from a predator might have short term stress, but then there's the thrill of escaping from such a predator, relying upon others to save your life, and you saving other peoples' lives in your turn. It's living life in the raw and all the thrill that entails.
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Thursday, 7 April 2016
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Marilyn vos Savant
I read this very interesting article on Marilyn vos Savant who, at least at one point, held the world's highest recorded IQ. The articl...
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Someone on twitter/X asked the following question: A mathematician emerges from a cave, hands you the photo below, and asks "Will a c...
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I recently read the following article: What the Buddha Didn't Teach About Reincarnation It says: "This is not to say that “we” ...
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Woody Allen has said : I firmly believe ... that life is meaningless. I’m not alone in thinking this — there have been many great minds far...
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It keeps being claimed (eg David Papineau, Sean Carroll et al ) that if consciousness caused anything in the brain over and above physical c...
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According to this article Greenland is the country with the world's highest suicide rate. From 1900-1930 Greenland had a suicide rate ...
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I bought the Lenovo D32-45 PC Monitor 10 days ago (it's not available on Amazon). It cost £169.00 which I believe is about the cheapest...
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There's 2 possibilities: a) This is the only life there is. When we die we simply cease to exist. Our lives and the Universe are, in a...
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Someone said in a comment under a Guardian article: My solution to this problem is somewhat simplistic. I don't do social media. As in...
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Below on the left is a photo of me taken back in 1985. I uploaded that photo to ChatGPT and said to it "Generate an image of what this ...
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An interesting Guardian article : It is worth reminding ourselves that the vast majority of our ancestors saw the world in a very different...