It could be related to the nature of opposition being necessary to experience anything. Without pain, can you experience pleasure? Happiness and sorrow?
All of these things exist on a sliding metric, rather than just being binary components. This thing makes me a little happy, while this thing makes me VERY happy. Perhaps the level of each component is actually limited more than it could have been. The most excruciating pain might be less than it could have been if reality had increased the thresholds for these sensors.
Could we appreciate the same sensations if we just had a memory of this duality? For instance, if you spend 10 years experiencing the full gamut of sensations and emotions, would it be possible to still feel great happiness if all of the pain was removed from that point on? If that were to happen, the varying levels of happiness would describe the new thresholds we become accustomed to. VERY happy would be regular happy, while a little happy would become depression.
The thing that seems to be lacking is an arbiter that can ensure everyone can experience a lot of the positives while only enduring some of the negatives. Instead, many people are miserable almost their entire lives while some people are happy all of the time.
I suppose a god should fulfill this role of bringing justice to the world to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity for positive experiences. That does not seem to be the case though.
It could be related to the nature of opposition being necessary to experience anything. Without pain, can you experience pleasure? Happiness and sorrow?
All of these things exist on a sliding metric, rather than just being binary components. This thing makes me a little happy, while this thing makes me VERY happy. Perhaps the level of each component is actually limited more than it could have been. The most excruciating pain might be less than it could have been if reality had increased the thresholds for these sensors.
Could we appreciate the same sensations if we just had a memory of this duality? For instance, if you spend 10 years experiencing the full gamut of sensations and emotions, would it be possible to still feel great happiness if all of the pain was removed from that point on? If that were to happen, the varying levels of happiness would describe the new thresholds we become accustomed to. VERY happy would be regular happy, while a little happy would become depression.
The thing that seems to be lacking is an arbiter that can ensure everyone can experience a lot of the positives while only enduring some of the negatives. Instead, many people are miserable almost their entire lives while some people are happy all of the time.
I suppose a god should fulfill this role of bringing justice to the world to ensure everyone has an equal opportunity for positive experiences. That does not seem to be the case though.