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Frontal asymmetry 101_How to get Insights On Motivation and Emotions from EEG

Relatively increased left-frontal activity may serve as an index of approach motivation or related emotion (e.g., anger and joy). In contrast, relatively increased right-frontal activity may serve as an index of withdrawal motivation or related emotion (e.g., disgust, fear, and sadness).

to compare with https://www.the16types.info/vbulleti...of-Personality

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Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide - https://aeon.co/ideas/humans-are-the...hrough-suicide

The idea that death means mental oblivion is a sophisticated one that can be reached only by deduction, not observation; we assume no non-human animal could grasp it.

No person alive has ever experienced death, yet they think death would bring salvation. How?

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Humans are the only animals who crave oblivion through suicide - https://aeon.co/ideas/humans-are-the...hrough-suicide



No person alive has ever experienced death, yet they think death would bring salvation. How?

I think many people assume death is just the end of experience forever. Experiencing nothing at all is generally preferable to experiencing only misery. So when people find tbeir lives are becoming too much to handle, they make a completely rational choice to kill themselves. It doesn’t have anything to do with “salvation” except for the religious.

[Metamorph]

I think many people assume death is just the end of experience forever. Experiencing nothing at all is generally preferable to experiencing only misery. So when people find tbeir lives are becoming too much to handle, they make a completely rational choice to kill themselves. It doesn’t have anything to do with “salvation” except for the religious.

I don't think experience can end for a rational being, but that might be too strange of a concept for this kind of discussion.