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I don’t want to be a part of the world. My body is my own. I want to live my own life.Not sitting around like some sheep waiting to be strangled by some stranger’s kindness.”
A version of me that accepted everything the real me hated.
They were healthy but lifeless,
screaming in perfect silence.”
when people experience something really extreme, it’s very difficult for them to find balance after that. Their reaction usually points in an equally extreme opposite direction.
“Desire is very closely linked to reward.
People change their minds all the time. It’s the differences in reward levels that change our will, and it’s all mapped out.
you wanted to use the feedback mechanism to control human will, you would need a very detailed model of human value judgments in order to accurately predict how such control would function.
their system of values is fashioned to be in perfect harmony with society,
By losing its sense of self and self-awareness, society had been freed from the pain it suffered because its systems had relied on imperfect humans, arriving for the first time at a perfect bliss.
