Academian comments on Suffering as attention-allocational conflict - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 18 May 2011 03:12PM

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Comment author: Academian 04 July 2011 12:33:44PM 0 points [-]

Data point: This characterization of suffering agrees with my experience, and I've eliminated a lot of suffering from my life my resolving the associated attentional conflicts. I also share the experience that it is applicable to many different kinds of suffering, including both mental and physical.