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Steven C Hayes- Getting Out of You Mind
The One You Feed
The Problem With Human Language
We're the only species that can relate events bi-directionally and in networks. We change what we do based on arbitrary qualities of those events and social convention not on their formal properties. At chimpanzee you can learn the larger of two piles of pennies let's say but only a human being can learn that a dime is bigger than a nickel which it certainly isn't. Children don't develop normal human language if by age 12 months 16 months they're not actually deriving these relationships by directionally and in network for example. I think unnecessary pain is built in suffering comes when we mishandle the present moment and we amplify the impact of difficult thoughts and feelings.
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