• essell@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Yeah, totally.

    I laugh at my hayfever, through the sneezing and the coughing. My husband gets angry.

    So we have very different levels of “suffering” to the same experience.

    Good example, thanks.

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        4 hours ago

        I guess so. If you wanted to fake a reaction you could choose to, so the opposite must be true too, right? Choice happens at different levels, and most the choices we make happen at a level outside the conscious mind so quickly we wouldn’t register them as choices