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Obviously this line of thinking applies to all areas of life, including our pursuit of scientific and mathematical truth. However, what I said was that it is never more obvious, to me, than when infatuated or even in love (I've been so once, and I ended up purposefully distancing myself from her because of this shitty sentiment). And that thought lingering in the background entirely ruins the experience for me. This doesn't come up wth most other parts of life for me because it is not quite as self-evident, like I explained above with friendships.
I can rationalize this sentiment all I want, but at the end of the day it is just that: an emotion; an internal feeling of cringe and inauthenticity I cannot get rid of. Nothing rational about it.
>Go take a big dose of acid. Try to keep a straight face while insisting that the phenomenology of the trip you go on is simply uninspiring, given your knowledge that a "mere chemical on a blotter" was the catalyst for the entire thing.
I have, and it was a marvelous experience. Knowing it was caused by LSD makes it hardly any less "magical" to me given the profoundity of the experience. Hypocritical? Yes. Again, this is not a purely logical thing, clearly.
>Empathy is just an evolutionary trait necessary for survival too, are you gonna abandon being empathetic too just because it's not "mysterious" enough?
I had a similar line of reasoning during middle and high school, which led me to more or less train myself to tune out or completely ignore feelings such as empathy. I'm now in college, so not much later, but I suspect this did have an effect on me because I have a seriously hard time feeling empathy. So much so most of my friends call me a sociopath.