@firefly,
existential potential wrote:
Our interpretations of experiences determine how we think, which, in turn determines how we behave; our interpretations are determined by early instinctive reactions to experiences, which then have a major influence on all subsequent thought, and therefore behaviour.
To retort to the first reply by “Shapeless”, it is not experience itself which determines anything, rather it is our interpretative and fundamentally our instinctive reactions to experience which determine our thought and therefore behaviour.
I just did not convey “experience” in the right manner.
OK - I'm confused <that doesn't take much these days> and is no slight on your thinking ep..
influence on all subsequent thought, and therefore behaviour.
as you change and grow thru life, your thought processess based on different experiences change, your behaviour changes. Therefore not all subsequent thought and behaviour is determined by early instinctive reactions.
What am I missing here? <answers on a postcard> Am I just being "thoughtless" here.... I don't get it!
firefly wrote:
All of this may go on in our brains so quickly we may, or may not, be aware of making the choice, but we are making it none-the-less. A mother who runs into a burning building to save her child knows she might die in doing so, but her own welfare is less important to her than her motivation to save her child--she has made a very rapid choice about what she wants to do, but she has made a choice.
yep Firefly, of course you are right there - that does make sense - I understand that from what you have written. How does the brain work so fast....? how can you have a whole lifetime of thoughts in a nano second?......oh no no no... they were rhetorical questions!
Childrearing and parenting... I believe... even when both are neurotypical is the most difficult and most rewarding “behaviour”...<----- can't think of the right word to use (job seems inappropriate, experience, maybe) when one is dealing with someone who is not neurotypical " the mix, at best, can be “soul destroying” emotionally.... that is where existpoten, who I think believes in “detachment” may have a point " though me personally, would never be able to “detatch” from emotions, I have to try and find a way to deal with the emotions " or else I believe, I lose “me”
Then...there's the mindset of love = (heart + mind) = (often irrational - should know better + does it anyway) = (heart > mind) = whole lot of passion fruit and coconuts!!!!
I'll stop thinking for a bit a?
ci " yep, yep..
Nick " I have much to learn about this, which I am about just commencing... this interests me greatly.
<reading along>