Under the macroscope

[andrewducker]

Over here pigeonhed asked _why_ we needed to know what caused certain kinds of behaviour.

To which my response was that we didn't _need_ to know, but that many people want to know why people behave the way we do - me included. I'd love to know why I'm straight, geeky, smart, unable to draw (beyond very bad stick men), able to write tolerably well (but was completely incapable when at school), etc. I've spent huge numbers of hours reading about human behaviour, in an attempt to understand both myself and others better.

But I know that not everyone does this. And clearly some people find investigation of their behaviour uncomfortable - even when it's in the abstract (i.e. investigation of people that do the things they do).

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Comments

[andrewducker]

If that really does hold, then there'd be little advantage in knowing deeper roots

I'm fairly sure you're right there - there's little advantage in it. I'm just fascinated by it.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

hmm, me too. but in a far less intense way these days.