Thread 41337736

This is going to be a bit difficult to explain, but I will try. I have noticed that there seem to exist theoretical emotions within the mind that I don't think anyone ever actually experiences. The vast majority of these are of extremely high intensity, with what I imagine is the most common example being the feeling of love turned up to a level that is literally euphoric. I don't think anyone (or at least the vast majority) ever actually experience this emotion, yet somehow our minds seem to be aware of it, just like how in dreams we can feel the sensation of falling from a great height even without ever having done so.

Another phenomenon that I feel like might be related is how images of things seem to have more emotion/energy than the thing itself. For example, if you were to look at an image of a location you find beautiful, my experience is that you get a greater feeling of beauty from the image than if you were to go to that exact location and observe it directly.

Does anyone have any theories of why these happen?

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>>41337736 (OP)
i disagree with your last point, i played a ton of geoguesser, the japan map specifically, but actually being there is a much richer feeling, the smell, the sounds, the moving images and tactile sensations of exploring a city.
i think this is a unique feeling that has to be experienced, and cannot be replicated artificially (at least not without a simulation that is as realistic as real life, like a holo deck or something)
but even with a holo deck version of tokio, would it feel as good? i kinda doubt it, your brain always knows its not real. diminishing the value of the experience.

but your first point is actually very nice and clever, and i never thought about the existence of extremely niche and unique feelings nobody will ever feel.

and with this you actually gave me a unique feeling i think, we might just have checked another box of "emotion felt" :)
can we collect them all?
is there an achievement for it that will pop up?
"all emotions explored 5M XP"

>>41337736 (OP)
>euphoric
You'll need to come back to earth. Either slowly or with a bump. Either way you'll be moving away from euphoria. You'd need to move from euphoric to a sleep state to navigate safely back to based.

>>41338536
I have to believe you wouldn't want to explore all emotions.

>>41338582
I've been stuck in euphoria for a while

>>41338588
not me personally no, but it is imanigable that you would have it as a goal, if this universe is some sort of simulation, test, fractals of god experiencing not being omnipotent, or idk

>>41338736
You would want to experience the bad emotions? Feelings of pain and lonliness turned up to a level beyond anything anyone has ever experienced but has the capacity to? I didn't mean you specifically, by the way.

>>41338764
i sometimes try to imagine it, yes, like different ways to die, and how it would feel.

but i am scared of experiencing the worst, there are for sure much worse emotions then i am capable of imagining right now and i am scared of that and i hope that no one will ever have to feel them.

fuck i hope its not a simulation with this goal, that would suck so much for some individuals. i dont want that. this motherfucker, why would you do that? create it for this purpose? that is cruel wtf? who would do that? piece of shit

>>41338764
NTA but I would absolutely want to. I know that I would almost certainly regret it, but I also know that I would say yes if given the opportunity.

>>41338797
Imagining it is a lot different than actually experiencing it. I often imagine different lifes than mine, especially what it is like to be in a slaughterhouse/ factory farm, because objectively speaking the vast majority of mammals (and birds) alive on earth are in one right now (60% of mammals and 95% of birds) and its basically just luck that we aren't.
To your second point, i dont think we should be scared necessarily, but i dont think we should actively be trying to seek the experience out. maybe just spread compassion and understanding to those who many actually be experiencing such pains.
To your third point, there isn't a creator, because necesarily they themself would have to have been created. essentially life, the universe, has no definable start or end. This is liberating because there is no one to get mad at for doing it all.
>>41338825
Fair enough, especially if it means experiencing the unimaginable highs too.

>>41337736 (OP)
Love is a compromised word.
Our language has been manipulated over centuries to believe love is solely romantic love but the only real love that is truly euphoric is spiritual.

>>41337736 (OP)
https://archive.is/SvqGT
>Some scientists believe we have infinite emotions, so long as we can name them.
https://fortelabs.com/blog/how-emotions-are-made/

Hate and love the idea of an incomprehensible sort of dread or terror that is so overwhelming your brain stops your heart to "protect" you

>>41338582
Wasn't saying euphoria doesn't exist I was talking about a type of love that is taken to a euphoric extent. It is often accompanied by the idea of 2 beings becoming so intimate that they effectively become one for a moment.