Why couldn't we all just have been mindless automata? Everything would be so much easier if we didn't have to experience anything.
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In a perfect world, nobody would be suicidal
- Feb 27, 2022
- 193
I've been thinking about how it must felt for people who got a "sucessfull" lobotomy, it's a barbaric method and not a cure obviously. Maybe that erased their despair and took the pain away, turning them into "robots".
FuneralCry
Just wanting some peace
- Sep 24, 2020
- 47,554
Consciousness really can be torture, life itself is just pointless and unnecessary suffering. It hurts me being alive and more than anything I wish that I never existed in the first place.
wanttogetonthebus
chronically unlucky
- Nov 27, 2021
- 410
I've thought about before too. It's hard to say if it really was able to take away people's pain but everyone who had a lobotomy was certainly left permanently changed forever.
onlyanimalsaregood
Unlovable 💔 Rest in peace CommitSudoku 🤍
- Mar 11, 2022
- 1,329
fox_wannabe
Enlightened
- Jul 7, 2021
- 1,112
I am asking myself the similar questions, almost everyday
If neuroscientists are not working on NPC pills than I think they are not doing their job, and should be all sacked.Yeah, reflective consciousness is a boon and a bane, for sure. Anyone remember that classic written by Julian Jayne, THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND? If I recall correctly, the author, a Princeton psych. professor (I think, but not well), speculated that humans during the same period of Homer's writings manifested through natural selection the capacity to hear voices external to them--a rudimentary precursor to reflective consciousness. Hence, the origins of religion, commandments, thunder gods, Rush Limbaugh.
