Comment on To those who think that you should experience everything in the world at least once:
Sergio@piefed.social 1 week ago
I’m guessin this is bait, but anyways:
- human emotions have cognitive (as well as physiological) components that interact in ways we don’t yet understand. For example, if two people listen to a song that they enjoy, one person’s memories may be wistful and another’s may be tinged with a negative emotion, and each of these will trigger different physical reactions (which will themselves trigger cognitive responses, etc.)
- “The happiness you experience from eating is the same as the happiness from cocaine.” lel, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Pharmacodynamics
- That being said, there is something called “loving-kindness meditation” which encourages intentional benevolence for all things and is kinda in the spirit of this post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitr%C4%AB#Mett%C4%81_meditation
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
And this can happen to the same person at different times!