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Its quite marvelous to consider that we are hard wired to be happy, and depression is a "bug" that can be fixed with a crude electric jolt and not, in contrast,
by air7 5y ago
Its quite marvelous to consider that we are hard wired to be happy, and depression is a "bug" that can be fixed with a crude electric jolt and not, in contrast, some complex intricate inner state. Perhaps God likes us after all...
- eru 5y agoThe paddles they give your heart an electric shock with don't "fix" your heart. All they do is snap it out of a bad attractor. They sort-of reboot the system. That sort of shock doesn't need to be very sophisticated, like fixing a clock work would need to be. I imagine it might be similar for this treatment.