This makes me thing of a time when I would come out of a deep thought and would have no memory of what I was thinking, but that it was urgent and if I couldn't recall it my life was in danger. I felt I was going to die. They were extremely unsettling experiences. I can't even say my age at the time. I remember the home I lived in, I was older than 9.
Having watched some videos of gorrillas and chimpanzees at zoos interacting with humans through a glass wall, I suspect that these primates have much more of a cognitive capacity than we are capable of measuring. I think it’s been credibly established that animals like these experience emotions, and we also know that they have memory. So it doesn’t seem a far stretch to me that they would also ruminate, i.e. process their negative emotional memories to recalibrate their minds for survival going forward.
This makes me thing of a time when I would come out of a deep thought and would have no memory of what I was thinking, but that it was urgent and if I couldn't recall it my life was in danger.
I felt I was going to die.
They were extremely unsettling experiences. I can't even say my age at the time. I remember the home I lived in, I was older than 9.
How do we stop these thoughts?
Having watched some videos of gorrillas and chimpanzees at zoos interacting with humans through a glass wall, I suspect that these primates have much more of a cognitive capacity than we are capable of measuring. I think it’s been credibly established that animals like these experience emotions, and we also know that they have memory. So it doesn’t seem a far stretch to me that they would also ruminate, i.e. process their negative emotional memories to recalibrate their minds for survival going forward.
Get the defeat off repeat!