Not necessarily you, personally. But maybe you. If so, you should stop doing that. When I came across a promising article posted on a writers’ website titled “The World Needs Writers Now More than Ever” I could do nothing but nod in agreement, although my perspective runs more along the lines of when hasn’t the […] The post You Give Truth a Bad Name appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
It isn’t exactly news, but the evidence that we are all walking around, unaware, inside our personal fog of vagueness is becoming hard to ignore. We not only lack clarity, but we are also unable to pin down (be specific about) what’s important to us. We use words, we engage in verbal communication, we consider […] The post What Are So-Called<br> Secondary Emotions? appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
We can’t ask (or answer) true or false questions about something if it isn’t real to begin with. By that, I mean that reality and truth are not the same thing. I also mean that there’s a hierarchy in that we have to first determine the reality of something before we can entertain questions about […] The post It’s a Schabziger Moon. Or Is It? appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
A couple of weeks ago, I read an article by a philosophy professor, Karen Simecek, who said that conceiving of our lives as narratives is a bad idea. She thinks it’s a bad idea because some narratives are negative or have a negative effect, presumably on the narrator. She didn’t mention the brain in her […] The post Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman? appeared first on Farther to Go!.| Farther to Go!
Range: the extent or scope of something. Imagine a pendulum swinging between two states: feeling good and feeling bad. When we experience liking (or “here and now”) neurochemicals, the pendulum swings in one direction. When we experience disliking neurochemicals, the pendulum swings in the other direction. The range of motion between the two states represents […]| Farther to Go!
Liking is the pleasure you experience from something. The source of that pleasure is the liking—or Here and Now—neurochemicals released in your brain: serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins and other endogenous opioids, and endocannabinoids. The same pleasure-generating areas in the brain are activated for all pleasures, from gustatory and sensual to musical, artistic, and altruistic. Life’s intense […]| Farther to Go!