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Humans look to others as sources of truth and use them for examples to base their behaviour on. If there were no other people around and a person had no emotion
by Rd6n6 5y ago
Humans look to others as sources of truth and use them for examples to base their behaviour on. If there were no other people around and a person had no emotions at all, their eating and sleeping would become irregular, just like these flies, because there is nobody giving them cues about how to act. This isn’t really evidence of depression imho, but does show they have social awareness which is neat and which makes sense
- noman-land 5y agoIs there anything particularly bad about irregular sleeping or eating? Maybe it would be better to eat when we are hungry or sleep when we are tired instead of looking to others to decide how to feel.
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- Revenant-15 5y agoImo, we didn't evolve to function in a vacuum and it has severe emotional/psychological effects if we're in that situation (involuntarily). If loneliness isn't a purposeful choice with the mental stability and maturity required to create your own structured life, it can be quite harmful. It isn't just about "eating at a regular time", it's the social aspects of eating together, or seeing or interacting with people around which you can structure parts of your life.