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<blockquote data-quote="160cmcurry" data-source="post: 74432" data-attributes="member: 616">we’re the most advanced animal in terms of cognition but that same thing is also what screws us over. no other animal sits there replaying a conversation from years ago, questioning their worth, or creating problems that don’t even exist yet.animals didn’t “fail” to build what we built, they just didn’t go down that path. evolution isn’t a ladder where we’re the final form, it’s just different adaptations. a shark is perfectly optimized for being a shark, it doesn’t need self awareness to survive. we got self awareness, but it came with anxiety, existential dread, identity crises, anything that makes us ‘different’ from them.with all that “progress,” we’re still driven by the same core things. validation, fear of rejection, status, belonging. we just made them more abstract. instead of fighting over territory, we fight over social perception. instead of immediate threats, we stress about imagined futures.we just built a more complex cage around the same instincts</blockquote>

[QUOTE="160cmcurry, post: 74432, member: 616"] we’re the most advanced animal in terms of cognition but that same thing is also what screws us over. no other animal sits there replaying a conversation from years ago, questioning their worth, or creating problems that don’t even exist yet. animals didn’t “fail” to build what we built, they just didn’t go down that path. evolution isn’t a ladder where we’re the final form, it’s just different adaptations. a shark is perfectly optimized for being a shark, it doesn’t need self awareness to survive. we got self awareness, but it came with anxiety, existential dread, identity crises, anything that makes us ‘different’ from them. with all that “progress,” we’re still driven by the same core things. validation, fear of rejection, status, belonging. we just made them more abstract. instead of fighting over territory, we fight over social perception. instead of immediate threats, we stress about imagined futures. we just built a more complex cage around the same instincts [/QUOTE]

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