still looking through it
Oct. 23rd, 2001 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iamomYou know that Quick Launch toolbar down by your Start Menu that contains shortcuts to popular programs? I'm still working on my first factory install of Windows 98 from December 1999, so all the shortcuts I've ever placed on that menu are still there. And when I just hovered my mouse over some of the shortcuts I haven't used for a long time, I felt a wave of nostalgia come over me. I remembered installing the different programs, and what I used to use them for, and it reminded me of the period in which I had installed each one. They were like nostalgic time markers to specific periods in my past.
This Psych class has really been tripping me out. It just occurred to me that the feeling of nostalgia is yet another neurophysiological process, and that it is not an intrinsically meaningful emotion, either. In fact, every feeling, thought and emotion in the world is manifested to our conscious minds through the means of a biochemical process in our brains. Wouldn't enlightenment also be just another one of those biological processes?
This Psych class has really been tripping me out. It just occurred to me that the feeling of nostalgia is yet another neurophysiological process, and that it is not an intrinsically meaningful emotion, either. In fact, every feeling, thought and emotion in the world is manifested to our conscious minds through the means of a biochemical process in our brains. Wouldn't enlightenment also be just another one of those biological processes?
