Why is life programmed to survive?

[Arkilogue]

Sounds like emotional Tourettes syndrome...no wonder the monks meditate.

Sounds like you're injecting unsupported premises. You'll run out of them soon enough, I suppose.

If our emotional state is largely reactionary to biochemical triggers, would it be advantageous to remove oneself for possible triggers and gain mastery over one's mental state?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Thoughts are a higher order process than emotions.

Please define the difference, preferably with a minimum of your usual bullshit. Provide sources, while you're at it -- I don't trust your words, and want to review any possible evidence for myself.

[Arkilogue]

Thoughts are a higher order process than emotions.

Please define the difference, preferably with a minimum of your usual bullshit. Provide sources, while you're at it -- I don't trust your words, and want to review any possible evidence for myself.

Thanks for the challenge and I'll gladly take it up in a couple hours after I get back from work.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I don't think we're talking about the same thing.  What you're describing -is- an action we use to determine intent.

Fair enough -- speech is an action. It's perhaps a tad more abstract than I had read you, which is why I felt the urge to go into detail. Words not only convey intent, they also can describe intent even when the end result goes awry.

Kinda like hitting your thumb with the hammer, and describing what you were doing nailing in the first place -- to a blind person. Anyway.

[Thumpalumpacus]

If our emotional state is largely reactionary to biochemical triggers, would it be advantageous to remove oneself for possible triggers and gain mastery over one's mental state?

When did I say that which I've emphasized in quoting you? Link, please.

Thanks for the challenge and I'll gladly take it up in a couple hours after I get back from work.

Be diligent.