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If our beliefs are just accidental collocations of atoms, then the logical validity of our scientific theories seems to be rendered suspect?

If a thought is just a physical chemical reaction (atoms colliding), how can we trust it to be logical?

If our brains are designed for survival and the truth gets us killed?

Evolution cares about behavior, not truth.

Peace✌️

One for the intellectuals on here, its deep.😆

How would a Compatabilist view John Rambo the trained to be killing machine soldier vs Rambo's behaviour in civie Street?

"The Mirror stage". Narcissus.

"The lack" could be seen as a narcissists feelings of inadequacy.

"The Desire of the other". A narcissist's need for admiration.

I get the human self centerdness stuff, but I guess I struggle with the idea that it's THE main focus with the human psyche?

When I read posts about moral responsibility and Determinism on here I get the impression that the focus is always about a person's individual chain of cause and effect.

But if you focus on base human psychology as a whole, then could you say that humans need their casual chains to be steered through education and law, because without it and left to their own devices they are more narcissistic wild savages, than rational beings?

Freud seemed the most pessimistic on human nature with regards to psychology ;

• "It is inherent in human nature to consider a thing untrue if one does not like it".
• "Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments".
• I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash...".
• "The first requisite of civilization is that of justice"

Lacan believed we actually look to "The Big Other". That we look to the Big Other to know how to behave. It is the imagined authority that guarantees the meaning of our words and the validity of our social interactions, such as shaking hands or following rules.

According to Lacan, the Law prevents the subject from pursuing an excessive, self-destructive pleasure known as jouissance. The Law sets boundaries (castration) that make social life possible by regulating this destructive excess. 

Jung viewed self-centeredness as a fundamental biological and psychological imperative for survival and individual development.

In his later life, Bertrand Russell famously concluded that mathematics is a "logical fiction" or, more accurately, a set of tautologies (statements true by definition) that do not describe the real world. 

As far as mathematics go's he knew his shit.

More recently Hannah Fry has touched on this subject.

If 2+2=4 is a logical fiction then does that make causation a mental construct imposed upon the world by human beings, rather than a fact observed in physics?

Am I projecting my casual interest in psychology onto finding reasons to believe in Hume's Causation and Induction, and psychological projections? 😆

Peace✌️.

Schopenhauer firmly believed that a person's fundamental character is fixed and innate from birth. He argued that our moral and intellectual qualities are "natural data" that remain unalterable throughout our entire lives.

If neuroscience and Psychoanalysis strongly disagree with that level of Determinism, where does the leap of faith come from with followers?