Consciousness is such a scam

[DynamicDepression]

Why couldn't we all just have been mindless automata? Everything would be so much easier if we didn't have to experience anything.

 

[SpaceCadet]

I've been thinking about how it must felt for people who got a "sucessfull" lobotomy, it's a barbaric method and not a cure obviously. Maybe that erased their despair and took the pain away, turning them into "robots".

 

[FuneralCry]

Consciousness really can be torture, life itself is just pointless and unnecessary suffering. It hurts me being alive and more than anything I wish that I never existed in the first place.

 

[wanttogetonthebus]

I've been thinking about how it must felt for people who got a "sucessfull" lobotomy, it's a barbaric method and not a cure obviously. Maybe that erased their despair and took the pain away, turning them into "robots".

I've thought about before too. It's hard to say if it really was able to take away people's pain but everyone who had a lobotomy was certainly left permanently changed forever.

 

[onlyanimalsaregood]

Yhp

 

[fox_wannabe]

I am asking myself the similar questions, almost everyday

If neuroscientists are not working on NPC pills than I think they are not doing their job, and should be all sacked.

 

[MegaGordo]

Yeah, reflective consciousness is a boon and a bane, for sure. Anyone remember that classic written by Julian Jayne, THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND? If I recall correctly, the author, a Princeton psych. professor (I think, but not well), speculated that humans during the same period of Homer's writings manifested through natural selection the capacity to hear voices external to them--a rudimentary precursor to reflective consciousness. Hence, the origins of religion, commandments, thunder gods, Rush Limbaugh.