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Classically reductionist, and completely incorrect. If I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual, it's because I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual. It's not r

Classically reductionist, and completely incorrect. If I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual, it's because I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual. It's not reducible to anything else.

Rainymood 7y ago
>If I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual, it's because I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual. But why stop there? What you are saying now feels (to me) much like circular reasoning: I like X because I like X. But why do you like X? I also like to lie in my blanket and read with a cup of tea because: it is comfortable, it is safe, it is stimulating for the mind ... so I urge you to think why do you like your ritual
- mrmonkeyman 7y ago
  Other things are also comfortable and stimulating in equal measure. I don't want to do them. Thesr reasons are adhoc and we delude ourselves with them. Like we do this advanced calculations, is A more comfortable than B if I do X.. nope. Like the poster above said, you just like it because you like it. Painful for reductionists, but every animal will know what you mean. So there's that, Mr. Dolittle.
- callesgg 7y ago
  There is never a clear answer to why something is the way it is. The answer depends on the context in which you ask the question. Which context is best to use is impossible to answer. You don't know all the contexts.
kranner 7y ago
You may like ritual-X-ostensibly-to-facilitate-end-Y now, but surely when you first started following ritual X it was to achieve end Y, and not just to have a ritual you would eventually come to like for its own sake.
coldtea 7y ago
That is so absurd, it's not even wrong. For one, you weren't born with the affection for blankets and tea. You developed it under several conditions. And you chose this particular comforting pass-time other others for several reasons. Heck, billions of people crave the lifestyles the see on movies and commercials, and e.g. go creating rituals of "hygge" (blankets and hot beverages being essential to it) because they saw a show about it or read about it on Goop and think they will make them as happy as the people in the photos...

Classically reductionist, and completely incorrect. If I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual, it's because I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual. It's not reducible to anything else.

Rainymood 7y ago

>If I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual, it's because I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual. But why stop there? What you are saying now feels (to me) much like circular reasoning: I like X because I like X. But why do you like X? I also like to lie in my blanket and read with a cup of tea because: it is comfortable, it is safe, it is stimulating for the mind ... so I urge you to think why do you like your ritual

mrmonkeyman 7y ago
Other things are also comfortable and stimulating in equal measure. I don't want to do them. Thesr reasons are adhoc and we delude ourselves with them. Like we do this advanced calculations, is A more comfortable than B if I do X.. nope. Like the poster above said, you just like it because you like it. Painful for reductionists, but every animal will know what you mean. So there's that, Mr. Dolittle.
callesgg 7y ago
There is never a clear answer to why something is the way it is. The answer depends on the context in which you ask the question. Which context is best to use is impossible to answer. You don't know all the contexts.

kranner 7y ago

You may like ritual-X-ostensibly-to-facilitate-end-Y now, but surely when you first started following ritual X it was to achieve end Y, and not just to have a ritual you would eventually come to like for its own sake.

coldtea 7y ago

That is so absurd, it's not even wrong. For one, you weren't born with the affection for blankets and tea. You developed it under several conditions. And you chose this particular comforting pass-time other others for several reasons. Heck, billions of people crave the lifestyles the see on movies and commercials, and e.g. go creating rituals of "hygge" (blankets and hot beverages being essential to it) because they saw a show about it or read about it on Goop and think they will make them as happy as the people in the photos...