Pursuit of happiness or something is where it's at. The question of why or what a purpose means to a consciousness/brain is up to every individuals. By what you mean, SapphireRed, is asking for objective truth, I'm guessing.
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Who agrees and to what extent and what are the exceptions?
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Lemme think about it. I don't agree, most regular folks, the slave minded controlled sheep won't mind not seeking 'why' of our existence, I think it won't be too difficult to find evidence for this from sociological studies. What you meant by this question and the follow ups exhibits that you believe in the classification system, I forgot how they call it in medical field. Is it reasonable? Somewhat.
Chemical imbalance theory was refuted(retracted is more precise, makes no difference to me though...) by a leading psychiatrist, J.Lieberman is the name if I remember correctly. Their (,by this I mean bio-psychiatry coat wearing authoritarian dictators) reasonings in our 'History!!' have too many logical faults and inconsistencies.
Please don't mix up human psychology and biomedical model of study field where you believe chemical intervention is necessary. I'm not here to make an argument with anyone, it's just my opinion, as a non-American. And this is important, in many of countries outside of the West, a lot of folks with severe mental illnesses are treated as less than human, and the thinking of the West affects the rest of the world. The moral implication can not be taken lightly.
Obviously, English is not my first language, so I could be misphrasing some things, please keep that in mind. The statistics can not be trusted because the modality of diagnosing mental disorders are WEAK. The subjectivity of human psych in relation to our agreed objective reality is highly debatable in my view, moreover ethical and mortal cost of treating/understanding what we don't yet fully know is simply too high, the burden of proof is on the side of bio-psychiatry doctors. They'd better put their medical degrees into practice in all seriousness.
I suggest people to start with philosophy and 'the development' of psychology before we start talking about various scientific aspects of our place in the society. Y'all sounds too certain about facts, let the famous Trolley Problem destroy your egos.
Hypotheses non fingo
Can we define truth/self through deception? Hedonism don't agree with me in the matter of life and death.
Occam's razor
Holy ****, I don't know anything, do I?