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To: The Philosopher who wrote (64441)	10/28/2002 2:10:56 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 82486

Few people are in such total control of their emotions no matter how much they examine their lives. Socialized and biologically hard wired responses are difficult to overcome that completely. You can reduce their internal impact and perhaps minimize any response outside of your own internal thoughts and emotions if you make the effort but most people don't and even those who do make the effort rarely if ever meet perfect success. You give the example of football players, but they do get angry at each other and sometimes let the anger effect their actions, getting in to fights or getting stupid penalties, or just holding it inside and disliking the person they are angry at. They are more used to getting hit and then go in to the game knowing they will be hit so their reaction to getting hit is normally a lot milder then the reaction of an ordinary person but it is not nonexistent even within the context of the game. And outside of the game they are unlikely to be "the master or their soul" enough to decide what reaction they will have, they will most likely have the normal hard wired "fight or flight" reaction. No one seems exactly the same in all contexts. In a different place and situation and dealing with different people, people will act differently but unless we are assuming a persona (and perhaps to a lesser extent even then) we are revealing aspects of our personality and ideas when we interact with others on SI or in 3d. The fact that someone might act differently on SI then in a particular 3d situation doesn't mean that what is presented on SI is not real. People act differently in different 3d situations as well. Does that mean that people are always phony? I don't think so. Tim

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