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Comment author: ChristianKl 27 January 2014 12:16:13PM 0 points [-]

I don't trust my understanding of quantum theory and the MWI to rely on Everett Immortality keeping me alive; if I'm not ready to deal with whatever comes close to killing me next, then I could very well end up permanently dead, in all branches of the future leading from this point.

Fear of death is a strong one. You could go associate that fear more and use it to push you to take action. Where do you feel that fear in your body?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 30 January 2014 10:02:08AM 0 points [-]

You could go associate that fear more and use it to push you to take action.

Fear can also "freeze" people.

Comment author: ChristianKl 30 January 2014 12:44:53PM 0 points [-]

Deassociated fear freezes people. Associating emotions generally produces action. Alternatively people can also find a way to deassociate them to escape them.

The kind of fear that can't be felt as movement in some part of the body is deassociated that why I ask where he can feel it in his body.

Comment author: DataPacRat 27 January 2014 02:27:44PM 0 points [-]

Where do you feel that fear in your body?

Er... Nowhere, at least that I notice?

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 January 2014 03:51:43PM 0 points [-]

Er... Nowhere, at least that I notice?

That's suggest the feeling is either disassociated or you just try to construct something intellectually that isn't there. In that form it won't help much with motivation.

While I think about it, trying to get strangers on the internet that I don't really know to associate a strong fear of death to motivate themselves might be an infohazard.