Humans are beasts of narrative. This sentence alone can explain so much. Humans can't be expected to be the consistently rational agent in economics or politics. Nowadays, we try to reject irrationality a lot, like religion or astrology. You can fedora tip all you want but these things aren't pure delusion - they're covering some sort of immaterial need that humans have.
I spoke earlier how lacking emotions made me duller
>>130441 , almost as if I couldn't see the full picture of whatever's going on. I also now remember realizing that I had no internal self-narrative. I believe this is why most people failed to read me or found me creepy. I didn't see myself much beyond a body that is capable in some ways and incapable in others.
Most people around me had some idea about themselves they tried reinforcing. Oh, that one is trying to look above it all, that one is always describing herself as narcissistic and a main character, almost as if trying to convince herself. Maybe this is why my true self never really felt seen by those mostly narrative driven individuals.
Apparently from what I found science confirms some of my ideas.
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/12/1/1/2823712?login=false - The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization by Lisa Feldman Barrett
>In other words, an instance of emotion is constructed the same way that all other perceptions are constructed, using the same well-validated neuroanatomical principles for information flow within the brainhttps://www.nature.com/articles/nrn894 and
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12290 - on Interoception.
>Recent functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body. This system constitutes a representation of 'the material me', and might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
