tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766985265879664956.post6683593779723689470..comments2023-08-18T04:41:17.410-07:00Comments on Happiness, truth, everything: Deciding / acting, and experiencingJazi Zilberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05905089558096276638noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766985265879664956.post-43669756177350367942009-04-11T09:28:00.000-07:002009-04-11T09:28:00.000-07:00Marvin Harris wrote a lot about cultural materiali...Marvin Harris wrote a lot about cultural materialism. <BR/>He is a terrific read!<BR/><BR/>Our Kind. Cannibals and kings. and many other bestselling books.Jazi Zilberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05905089558096276638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766985265879664956.post-38507092219592994082009-04-11T09:27:00.000-07:002009-04-11T09:27:00.000-07:00A complex topic. Just a comment...Individual belie...A complex topic. Just a comment...<BR/><BR/>Individual beliefs are for me yet another phenomenon of the human mind.<BR/><BR/>Beliefs are overrated. Many needs, wants and dynamics are similar across cultures and eras. I love the idea of cultural materialism where beliefs rituals etc. were said to emanate from how people mange their lives. I have not studied the topic, though.Jazi Zilberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05905089558096276638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766985265879664956.post-40091216684725346122009-04-10T12:15:00.000-07:002009-04-10T12:15:00.000-07:00Zilber, i am amazed that you never talk about reli...Zilber, i am amazed that you never talk about religion, what i meant is if you take the basic introduction of philosophy, every human and societies thing regarding -beliefs-you can not thing everyone is thinking like you or should think like you, and some of your writtings remember me Daniel gilbert on -stumbling on happiness-unfortunaly human beings me too are comfortable doing predictions every day because the need of certainties, and i remember Julian Jaynes - how we have been evolving since we heard voices and the need or beliefs trying to find flow state to reduce anxiety and boredom. As Nassim Taleb used to say we live in a world so complicated but because of individual beliefs and because after all we have free will, someone choosing a belief from a comunity or some comunities choosing beliefs of a individual, after all we humans are far complicated than the world empty.And if you want to have a whole idea of human condition you have to start to consider -beliefs-A catholic person has his goals clear and his target solid, the same the scientist, and so on muslims, budist, every one living with -Hope- of life after death.<BR/>Happines is different for everyone, what is happines for someone it is not for the other, but for solids beliefs and true religions seekers happines here is utopia, or as Julian jaynes probably we dont have to be concious to be happy likewise wi dont need concioness for thinking......From Mexico.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com