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Any last questions for Charles Lyell before I permanently log off of Quora?
I’ve just been informed that in order to remain on Quora I would have to switch to my real name, which I’m not in a position to do.
As with most of life’s “clouds” this one has a silver lining.
Quora has proven invaluable over the past few months and it’s probably time to collect my marbles (that some people probably think I’ve lost) and get back to the futility of trying to raise dopamine awareness in the “real world.”
A special thanks to all the incredibly interesting, intelligent, insightful, wonderful, thoughtful, knowledgeable, and especially funny Quorans for adding so much to my life. (I’ll refrain from naming names because I don’t want to risk leaving anyone out. But I suspect you all know who you are.)
If anyone’s interested in keeping in touch, feel free to say hello at
[email protected].
Thanks soooo much for everything. Your kindness, generosity, and receptiveness were and are sincerely appreciated.
As with most of life’s “clouds” this one has a silver lining.
Quora has proven invaluable over the past few months and it’s probably time to collect my marbles (that some people probably think I’ve lost) and get back to the futility of trying to raise dopamine awareness in the “real world.”
A special thanks to all the incredibly interesting, intelligent, insightful, wonderful, thoughtful, knowledgeable, and especially funny Quorans for adding so much to my life. (I’ll refrain from naming names because I don’t want to risk leaving anyone out. But I suspect you all know who you are.)
If anyone’s interested in keeping in touch, feel free to say hello at
[email protected].
Thanks soooo much for everything. Your kindness, generosity, and receptiveness were and are sincerely appreciated.
life
everyone
Some of the answers you write I feel like downvoting because they fixate onto dopamine too much as if that's the reason for everything everyone does everything.
The problem with this, is that it makes people look like psychopathic machines without free will, who only care about maximising their interest with minimal risk.
That there's no other reason why people do things, other than that.
Some of your answers don't take into account that people are individuals with unique hopes and dreams, values and motivations.
I will now give you an example of such an answer.
I will improve your answer by replacing the word dopamine with happy.
You're going to love this!
How can a person learn to take things less seriously?
So now................. I can take that answer, print it out, give it to a counsellor who has studies psychology for years, and they will say that it's not only because of primitive dopamine drugs like on the lowest level of Maslow's Hierachy of Needs as if we were looking at monkeys in a zoo mucking about. But also because children need to have regard and self-esteem for their personal-development as one of their key stages, as famous psychologist Carl Rogers says.
And we can extend the word happiness to mean other things that relate to one's morale, and dopamine cannot really increase one's morale, but self-esteem, regard and other things can.
Don't get me started on How could we fix the root problem(s) in US politics? The word happiness would improve that answer so much more lmao.
This is why I asked if you are a conspiracy theorist lol. I know you're not.
I just think that your answers undermine the integrity of free will, that's all.
And not everyone is going to want to accept that, even if you're right.
Goodbye anyway. It's a shame that you're going. Good look with your Dopamine Project. I'll email you to see what it does.