The Struggle

[videoK1]

Neuroscience and cause and effect. But only to a certain extent, there seems to be enough randomness for the observer to create a meaningful life. Neuroscience talks about addiction and brain chemicals, but it never explains how a certain thought-in the absence of physical circumstances can give rise to a new feeling.

[Rybot9000]

@videoK1 I understand quite well how a thought can lead to feelings. Explaining that with neuroscience is actually really easy. But there is a lot one must understand before the explanation can be comprehended. Neuroscience is about much more than addiction and neurochemicals, there is also the hierarchical organizational structure of the brain which is requisite for understanding how thought can lead to feeling.

[ouijaboy666]

your conscious mind understands that its bad for you. But your unconscious mind is yet to be convinced. Thats what meditation is for.

[unseenstrings]

Very negative emotions had been established in my mother regarding smoking and drinking and drug use. She successfully passed on some of those emotions to me. The dopamine released by the ingestion of the aforementioned, combined with the emotions previously established by my mother, results in a diminishing of the dopamine effect. This is the reason some people presume free will is true, because I can say no to cigarettes and drinking, without giving the matter second thought, but you can't.

[AhabCaptn]

I like your videos

very real and honest

If I may quote - "All thought is violence, since it is trying to protect itself" -U.G Krishnamurti

[KevinSolway]

There's always hope in the fact that if you can escape a delusion for one second, then it means you can do it for two seconds, and three, and longer.

[mirabileamavi]

I only have quotes to offer..

'I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.'

'He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.'

-Spinoza

[MenoftheInfinite]

Nice quote. Spinoza approached these issues with great equanimity.

[trick0171]

This video is a gem. Good job showing the emotion of realizations about the world.

[Rybot9000]

Thanks

[2bsirius]

Excellent video!

The problem you present here is one of the most difficult to come to grips with...The only way we can come to true freedom is to see that almost everything we do is dictated by our narcissistic needs and desires...We must come to a place where we're capable of going beyond that..but how? And it's hard for most of us to see any reason to do so..and your point about our [my] blind hypocrisy is true too. Is it possible to come to a place where we don't play this destructive game?

[Rybot9000]

I don't know the answer yet. Thanks for the comment!

[Panoculus]

Yes, it is possible to transcend the ego. It's already possible, because the need for it is detected.

It's a life-time endeavour, everyday opening the mind a bit more to cause and effect, and the non-inherent existence of things.

I'd say to Rybot9000, don't be too upset by engaging in attachments, given the truth of causation. One can't change overnight.

Use what stimulates the mind to keep thinking and opening-up.

Here's some medicines I've used:

- Thus Spake Zarathustra

[Panoculus]

- Opeth (very powerful psychologically)

- Ozric Tentacles

- writings of Hakuin Ekaku

- writings of Huang Po

- Soren Kierkegaard's journals

- anything by Otto Weininger

Anyone else got some favourite philosophical remedial attachments?

[gCuezy]

kind of a sad depressing creepy video... but I enjoyed it.

[sophia11roma]

ahhh its a beauuutiful struggle

[Rybot9000]

is it?