Who here identifies as a nudist/naturist? How did your journey begin ? How did being a nudist change your perspective?how would you educate people who are new to nudity? Or look down on nudity?
Yeah until someone ate some damned apple and now I am back in the closet wearing clothes like a bliming Neanderthal lmao.
The human mind sees minds everywhere. Show us a collection of bouncing balls and we hallucinate agency; a glance at a stuffed animal and we endow it with a mood; I'm convinced Siri doesn't like me. The point is that we are constantly translating our visual perceptions into a theory of mind, as we attempt to imagine the internal states of teddy bears, microchips and perfect strangers. Most of the time, this approach works well enough. If I notice someone squinting their eyes and clenching their jaw, I automatically conclude that he must be angry; if she flexes the zygomatic major - that’s what happens during a smile - then I assume she's happy. The point is that a few cues of body language are instantly translated into a rich mental image. We can't help but think about what other people are thinking about. But this intricate connection between mind theorizing and sensory perception can also prove problematic. For instance, when people glance at strangers who look "different" - perhaps they dress funny, or belong to a different ethic group - they endow these strangers with less agency, a fancy term for the ability to plan, act and exert self-control. Or consider a 2010 fMRI experiment that found that when men glance at "sexualized" women they exhibit reduced activation in parts of the brain typically associated with the attribution of mental states. These are obviously terrible habits - a hint of cleavage shouldn't make us care less about someone's feelings, nor should a different skin tone - but we mostly can't help it. We judge books by the cover and minds by their appearance. We are a superficial species. And this brings me to a fascinating new paper by an all star team of psychologists, including Kurt Gray, Joshua Knobe, Mark Sheskin, Paul Bloom and Lisa Feldman Barrett. The scientists nicely frame the mystery they want to solve: TRENDING NOW Science Meet the First College Students to Launch a Rocket Into Space Do people’s mental capacities fundamentally change when they remove a sweater? This seems absurd: How could removing a piece of clothing change one’s capacity for acting or feeling? In six studies, however, we show that taking off a sweater—or otherwise revealing flesh—can significantly change the way a mind is perceived. In this article, we suggest that the kind of mind ascribed to another person depends on the relative salience of his or her body—that the perceived capacity for both pain and planned action depends on whether someone wears a sweater or tank-top. In order to understand why sweaters and tank-tops influence the kind of minds we perceive, it's important to know about the different qualities we imagine in others. In general, people assess minds - and it doesn't matter if it's the "mind" of a pet, iPhone or deity - along two distinct dimensions. First, we grade these minds in terms of agency. (Human beings have lots of agency; goldfish less so.) But we also think of minds in terms of the ability to have experience, to feel and perceive. The psychologists suggest that these dual dimensions are actually a duality, and that there's a direct tradeoff between the ability to have agency and experience. If we endow someone with lots of feeling, then they probably have less agency. And if someone has lots of agency, then they probably are less sensitive to experience. In other words, we automatically assume that the capacity to think and the capacity to feel are in opposition. It's a zero sum game. Credits to Wired
Read the questions I did not nor will I ask for pics this is for a research paper ? stop being so perverted nudism is s natural thing