Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

A social memory complex not only has a collective mind. It also has collective emotions. Hints about that is that people have reported about intersubjective emotions, meaning emotional states shared between two or more people.

Our basic emotions are below thoughts one might say, almost like the level of animals. And the intellect struggles with regulating our behavior to avoid impulsively and immediately following our emotions. That's a higher development than merely basic emotions. However, it's also a clunky situation where our intellect has to struggle to keep our emotions in line and in check.

To me this means that there are higher levels of emotions possible, where instead of a struggle between the intellect and basic emotions, they integrate into a higher level of emotions. And with the higher emotions there is no longer the struggle and conflict between the intellect and emotions.

As an experiment, one way of testing this idea is to deliberately start following one's emotions impulsively, instantly. And it can be done with a dedicated practice during situations where it's safe to follow emotions impulsively. And then after some practice the idea is that the thoughts and the emotions will start to align and unify so that the conflict between the intellect and emotions dissolves. And from that unified state new and more advanced emotions can be cultivated.