http://raelifin.com/thoughts/why-is-it-so-annoying-to-be-wrong/ Deus ex Machina Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:18:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://raelifin.com/thoughts/why-is-it-so-annoying-to-be-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-231 anne Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:25:03 +0000 http://raelifin.com/?p=421#comment-231 Well, the superego is supposed to be the director and the voice of "don't eat that!" Most people ego's get tied up with their ideas--but I noticed that you don't talk about identification with ideas except as world view. Most people identify heavily with their ideas as "part" of them, a kind of empathetic response? But they also identify with emotional states and clothes and culture and everything. If you attack their ideas or which hand they use to eat their food, maybe you are anti-empathetic, or an ape from another group, or somehow attacking them. Well, the superego is supposed to be the director and the voice of “don’t eat that!” Most people ego’s get tied up with their ideas–but I noticed that you don’t talk about identification with ideas except as world view. Most people identify heavily with their ideas as “part” of them, a kind of empathetic response? But they also identify with emotional states and clothes and culture and everything. If you attack their ideas or which hand they use to eat their food, maybe you are anti-empathetic, or an ape from another group, or somehow attacking them.

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