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Originally Posted by kowalski
Not killing yourself willingly must be one of the most deeply hardwired things, to use that terminology, yet many people kill themselves.
You are hard wired to breathe and for your heart to beat, is there much more than that? Most everything else is a choice.
Peace,
kowalski
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Hardwired isn't the right term because theres no inevitability, obviously sufficiently strong will power can overcome an instinct but an awareness of those instincts enables us recognise why behaving in certain ways is more difficult that it might at first seem. Quite a lot of our day to day behaviour is pre-programmed probably more than most people are aware of. There is actually a whole industry devoted to exploiting our irrational instincts - its called "marketing"
. Manipulating our instinctive reaction to scarcity would be a good example.
Theres a good book called "predictably irrational" and theres also a lot of good stuff in Nassim Talebs "fooled by randomness".