Natasha Tori Maru

Right tool for the job - smart watches tend to specialise in domains. Is it for fitness tracking or actual smart watch functions? Or a bit of column A, bit of B? 😀

@Heaven thanks for sharing 🫶

@Sugarcoat I get your example though. That numbness from overexposure is pervasive. I think many suffer from emotional bluntness across the board from overstimulation. My question was specific to women crying. Not that this was special in any way. But I do think men might react differently to witnessing a man they know cry? Maybe. Just a curious question regarding mens phenomenological experience 🙃

What do you think about boys as children? They react emotionally. Just as girls. Do you think socialisation comes into it?

@Sugarcoat my hypothetical is geared toward men seeing a women they know, or are aquanted with, crying in a face to face situation. And to be clear - I mean any reaction. Doesn't have to be empathic. Just whatever arises first.

@Jirh I understand this. I usually have a default reaction, but cognition and critical assessment come online so quickly when analysing emotionally charged situations. I can either suppress the original empathic feeling or change the feeling entirely (depending on how I view motivations). If I make sense.

Thanks for sharing all! Including @Emerald - flip side of the coin experience. I do slightly struggle to believe men who claim to have no instinctual feelings or reactions prior to their cognition attempting to analyse "intention".

Sleep! Rest

What emotions / feelings come up for you? Sympathy, heartbreak, disgust, sadness, pity etc So you feel compelled to action?

The interior makes a big difference for me. Also with cars you have to factor in service costs. As soon as you go euro parts are harder to come by. Less alternatives and more OEM only. Services can be HUGE - routine minor and major at certain km %/number. This is where Toyota, Subaru etc and a lot of the asian makers have a huge advantage.

If we are being fanciful? Telepathy. One of Ralston's books - I forget which one - has a practice he endorses for integrity "inside/outside thoughts" or some-such. I forget all the details around it: You basically pretend like everyone around you can hear exactly what you think. All thoughts and feelings are transparent.

Charlize Theron's character runs parallel to a ship falling on her. She could run to the side. Some busted writing and storytelling... that is just the tip of the iceberg

As a woman, if I sense even a wif of red pill I am instantly turned off. Red pill makes many evolutionary-psychology claims that are oversimplified, difficult to test, or presented with much greater certainty than the evidence warrants. Yes, there is some truth to it. But the ability to decisively claim some things are inherent vs societal conditioning is not so easy to detangle. It presents a lovely, neat story. It all makes beautiful sense, doesn't it? That should put your bullshit detectors on alert. Always.

@mmKay you might enjoy this - I just finished it:

You can't make decisions properly or with efficiency without emotions and feelings. Logic can't help you make decisions. The AI would have to have emotions/feelings programmed in. It would need values.