Massimo2002
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What's stopping humans from doing nothing and becoming nothing ?
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Why do Humans care about anything ?
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Very nihilistic.
Not much I suppose other than our desire to do otherwise.
We are programed to survive. To do whatever is necessary to survive but sometimes that programming can get screwed up. Either genetically or by circumstances. How we deal with circumstance is again, largely dependent on how your brain is wired.
Can we rewire our brain? Sometimes it seems we can, sometimes it seems we can't. Though I don't think we can choose to care about something. Either we do our we don't. Often we are told what we ought to care about. When we don't, we may start to feel like something is wrong with us. Or that what we do care about, we are told it is the wrong thing to care about.
For myself, I have discovered what I care about and I'm ok with it. It doesn't really matter what other people think about it.
Are there actually people who care about nothing? IDK. I suspect though most are being told they ought to care about things they don't and have yet to discover for themselves what they actually do care about.
Empathy, compassion, altruism, and desire.
Massimo2002
Active Member
So in a simpler way Emotions ?
Just saying "emotions" may be an oversimplification for the reason humans care. I would say that emotions are a result of caring, not a reason for caring. There are also some emotions that would cultivate care more than others.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Life is better if you have friends, show empathy, help people, etc.
People you help will often reciprocate.
Nimos
Well-Known Member
I don't think it has changed over time. We ultimately aim for individual survival, we still need to eat, sleep, and not get "eaten" by things that want to "prey" on us.
But as evolution has led us, we find this easier when being in larger groups, and over time given our brains we have becomes so good at this, that we are basically disconnected from nature. And turned us into being primarily the ones that "prey" on each other. Knowing that we have to take care of these three basic things, food, sleep, and security, we constantly strive towards improving on it. Procreation is the primary thing to supporting these three basic needs, for the most part.
Besides curiosity, everything else is a superficial desire.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
Organisms are algorithms. Senses are inputs, emotions the outputs that drive action.
Survival instinct
Massimo2002
Active Member
But what if someone feels that life is better without doing those things ?
Massimo2002
Active Member
Why does the survival instinct exist ?
Massimo2002
Active Member
How do you know that evolution is true ? And what about the people who don't want to survive IE Suicide ?
Hermit Philosopher
Selflessly here for you
I do not know the particular cause and/or purpose of your question but generally speaking, a normal functioning human brain cannot refrain from registering, categorising, analysing and storing its interpretation (conclusion) of what it is exposed to.
In other words; human experience is continuously received, processed (interpreted) and stored in our brains and always impacts all agency - even if subconsciously. It is the composition of the human brain that “stops” us from “doing nothing”.
As far as “becoming” (anything); I am uncertain of how you mean…
Humbly,
Hermit
If it didn't there wouldn't be any life. The environment of this planet is constantly changing without the ability to adapt (survival instinct) life would always terminate in a short period of time. So all life has developed survival instinct. Now being that this is a religious forum and God is a distinct possibility in your thought process. I could not even guess why a God would make humans Care.
RabbiO
הרב יונה בן זכריה
Many, if not all, of the questions you raise on the forum seem to relate to the sense of personal emptiness you set forth when you joined RF. It may be that that some of us might have a useful insight or two to offer, but I don’t think reliance on a forum is the best way to resolve such a core personal issue.
Regiomontanus
Eastern Orthodox
Your title would make a bit more sense if it said non-Christian (or Jewish, Muslim, etc.) humans. If you think there is no purpose to life, then yeah, do whatever - or nothing.
PureX
Veteran Member
Nimos
Well-Known Member
I found the evidence for it an established fact. Obviously, if you disagree, you would have to look at the evidence.
There might be several reasons why one would prefer death over life, one of them is biological, like suffering from a painful disease, having done something that one can't live with etc. But ultimately, besides the biological one, you could put this under the label of security. But a lot of this is also due to the superficial values in society that influence people. But to me, I think the number one reason for people to commit suicide is due to a lack of feeling of security.
Just to be clear what I mean by security, it is not only in regards to being able to defend yourself, but also feeling secure in one's environment, family, friends, society etc. If someone feels outside or neglected by these, they will feel a lack of security, which can lead to one not wanting to live in a world where they feel no one cares for them.
But if you removed a lot of these superficial values that are "forced" upon people, I think the suicide rate would be far lower than they are today. Simply because there are too many "ideals" in today's societies that people feel they have to live up to, in order to feel accepted by others or secure around them.