Mental-Processes
How minds model choice, other minds, and right and wrong: attention, control, development, and the stories we tell about agency.
Overlaps with social life, but the spine here is thinking and development, not etiquette or institutions.
Human-Condition · Mental-Processes
🎮🧸 Your ego is a game where you are the toy
Your ego runs like a game engine your brain keeps active in the background. The pain feels real because it borrows the same circuits as physical injury, but the game itself is a simulation. If you want to evolve, recognize it is not real.
Human-Condition · Mental-Processes
🫂🧱 Empathy is a stack of feeling, perspective, and judgment, and systems can aim it
Empathy is not one switch. It is a stack: feeling with someone, seeing their view, and (later) judging actions against an inner sense of right and wrong. Most of that stack is learned as brains and norms mature; systems can aim it without erasing it.
Human-Condition · Mental-Processes
🔥🎯 When stakes run high, choice stops feeling free
We say we love choice, but past a point it turns on us. When stakes rise, we stop chasing the best choice and start chasing relief from anxiety.