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The human brain was designed â by natural selection â to mislead us, even enslave us:
We are living in an unreal circle of unhappiness.
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Emotions can be regarded as automatic judgements about our environment. For instance, anger and fear promote defensive reactions (fight or flight in the face of a threat) to improve our chances of survival; lust fuels sexual activity; and pleasure provides positive reinforcement for evolutionary goals.
But these reflex judgements are not always accurate. For instance, social justice movements the world over have struggled to bring our unconscious inferences about gender or otherness into conscious consideration,
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This theory conceives of the brain as possessing a variety of structures or networks which support specific functions: self-protection, enabled by a quick reaction to threats; mate attraction, enabled say through demonstrations of empathy or strength; mate retention; kin care; status-seeking, and so on.
These modules continuously compete for the prize of conscious attention. But this competition takes place as a nonconscious level. So many of our impulsive reactions are nonconsciously generated.
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Buddhism is a philosophy and practice for seeing the world accurately. To notice the true nature of reality:
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âLiberation consists of changing the relationship between your consciousness and the things you normally think of as its âcontentsâ â your feelings, your thoughts, and so on. Once you realize that these things are ânot-selfâ, the relationship of your consciousness to them becomes more like contemplation than engagement, and your consciousness is liberatedâ
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