Our generation was doomed from the start lol

[Dust 2 Dust]

Leisure Suit Larry was hilarious. I heard other guys talk about this game, but I never actually played it. I got the new Zelda Skyward Sword for Wii as a Christmas present so I'm off to rescue the princess haha!

 

[Zodiac]

A desire, whether a desire to live or to escape pain, is not an instinct.

So a thing that barely knows what it even is has desires and not instincts? I hope you're trolling.

 

[Julius_Seizeher]

So a thing that barely knows what it even is has desires and not instincts? I hope you're trolling.

The aforementioned kid in a bathtub, who struggles when his head is held under water, does not do so out of any "instinct" or otherwise supposed form of automatic knowledge; he struggles as a response to pain.

Though without any contextual understanding of his experience, he feels pain, which is a barometer of one's well-being. So it is through his senses that he detects danger against his life and acts to avoid it, which means: through a process of reason.

I do not believe that man possesses any "instinctive" knowledge. Everything man can know must be acquired willfully by the effort of his mind and through his five senses.

Modern psychology and psycho-epistemology have made thorough attempts to reduce man to the level of a pre-programmed biological robot, and I can see that they have mostly succeeded.

I reject the game movement's obsession with biocentrism, you do not know how much you are stunting your own mind when you reduce the achievements of the mind to a series of chemical reactions or "reinforced behaviors".

 

[ArcBound]

I do not believe that man possesses any "instinctive" knowledge. Everything man can know must be acquired willfully by the effort of his mind and through his five senses.

Modern psychology and psycho-epistemology have made thorough attempts to reduce man to the level of a pre-programmed biological robot, and I can see that they have mostly succeeded.

I reject the game movement's obsession with biocentrism, you do not know how much you are stunting your own mind when you reduce the achievements of the mind to a series of chemical reactions or "reinforced behaviors".

The more I think about it the more I think that you could be right. I think I need to review my thinking.