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Passion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Joshua Fox)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Are Passions More Reassuring About Attraction?

I think passions are a thing that people can feel better, ah, like that isn't just social conformity. That's real because the very idea of a passion is something that's hard to control so it highlights two levels of the thing in our controlling it. And so if you're afraid of over controlling, you want to like look for the control element and set it aside. For the passion you can say, aha, yes, because I see that I'm barely controlling it so I can see there's a difference between my control in the it or not. You don't necessarily know whether you have something like that unless it sort of happens to be the case.

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