You're just used to meat that is no longer capable of being anxious. We can chop you up into bits too, and your anxiety will be gone, if that is what you would like.
One of those philosophical-theological questions that you're probably better at answering than most people on here, even if you don't have a good answer
To steal (and badly paraphrase) a quote from somewhere else, if you put a wad of soggy bacon grease in a jar and electrified it until it invented calculus, it would be equally expected for it to also say "I saw a shadow in the corner and I think it's the ghost of my neighbor's cat."
When you're a relatively small organic lifeform piloted by whats essentially a sinewy super computer you become very aware that your meat is simply apart of a food chain
I've decided that, at 51, I am DONE with being anxious. I'm tired of it. My cortisol is 33. (normal is between 5 and 25). My brain is wired for it, & my chemicals are happily participating, but I am OVER IT. Leaving full shopping carts & running out of stores, avoiding people, it's exhausting.
Therefore, I propose that we all do what the Ortho doc advised me to do when he was trying to examine my hand: "Just calm down". At the time, I thought that was stupid advice. (It IS stupid advice). But I'm going to try to chill by 10%, a reasonable goal. I'm ready to decrease this intensity.
So, to all the anxious meat havers out there: While it is not that simple, maybe it can be? I will continue with all the other things that help, but I'm adding consciously focusing on 10% less anxiety. Or even 1%. That's fine, too. .01% is great! I want to see the snowball effect happen. Maybe?🤷♀️
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meat can’t make machines
https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcpp.14072
Imagine the future where we achieve full simulated emotion in AI. Meat will have given sand anxiety, and claim it a victory.