{"id":32095,"date":"2017-08-11T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=32095"},"modified":"2017-08-11T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:55:56","slug":"natural-selection-doesnt-care-about-our-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=32095","title":{"rendered":"\u201e\u2026natural selection doesn\u2019t care about our happiness.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And that\u2019s just evidence that natural selection doesn\u2019t care about our happiness. If it cared about our happiness, it would just leave us in a state of eternal bliss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the book, you say it can be helpful to think of natural selection as a force like the evil robot overlords in <em>The Matrix<\/em>, which keep people living in a dream, blind to the true reality of their lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s a useful metaphor.<br \/>\n(\u2026)<br \/>\n<strong>How does that work? How does meditation help us recognize and free ourselves from the emotional impulses we\u2019ve evolved to have?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In terms of actual brain science, I don\u2019t think we know the complete answer by any means. We do know that one thing that happens during mindfulness meditation is that the so-called default mode network in the brain gets quiet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thomas MacMillan \u201e<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/2017\/08\/natural-selection-made-us-anxious-meditation-can-help.html\"><strong>Natural Selection Made Us Anxious. Meditation Can Help<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that\u2019s just evidence that natural selection doesn\u2019t care about our happiness. If it cared about our happiness, it would just leave us in a state of eternal bliss. In the book, you say it can be helpful to think of natural selection as a force like the evil robot overlords in The Matrix, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,409],"tags":[4976,5334,4584,3132,5332,868,5338,5330,5335,5331,5333,5336,5329,5339,1955,5337],"class_list":["post-32095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freudiana","category-look-on-the-bright-side","tag-brain","tag-buddhism","tag-buddyzm","tag-dziedziczenie","tag-emotions","tag-genetyka","tag-happiness","tag-lek","tag-meditation","tag-medytacja","tag-mental-health","tag-robert-wright","tag-strach","tag-szczescie","tag-umysl","tag-why-buddhism-is-true-the-science-and-philosophy-of-meditation-and-enlightenment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32097,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32095\/revisions\/32097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}