It is genuinely appropriate to recognise regret as being a tool of the mind necessary for self analysis and correction. In recalling the activation of this mechanism as I experienced it the question is raised of whether this mechanism indicates the possibility that consciousness may be an autonomous feature of the universe that only requires physical form to self manage and evolve. Here I would remark that without the limitations imposed by the physical form, any self-arising consciousness would be without facility to nneither recognise the nature of it’s own existence nor a vehicle to evolve in any apparent manner. Inevitable apparency is a requirement of the facilitation of anything that might be described as a reality, after all.

To digress in order to illustrate my meaning I will annotate my observations regarding the activation experience of my minds regret app.

A) I recall the urge to examine my environment

B) Once this examination had begun I recall becoming aware that there appeared to be endless material to examine but a limited opportunity to access this.

C) I recognise this inital awareness as the seed of a regret function the bounds of which were then first explored primarily through mistakes made during a physical youth that was capable of sustaining the loss incurred in the process of examining the limits of fallibility.

This dynamic parallels that of physical evolution. This might be assessed as the universe having regret as a basic function of creation on both atomic and molecular levels, implying a conscious construction of an evolving reality as it’s purpose. Is regret the basis of reality and evolution making the universe the facility of a conscious mind requiring it?

the lady just served the meal’n
warned me the eggs are a bit mangulated’n
sittin’ here now waitin’ be ate’n
ol’ writin’ shit in’t rectangle meal goin’ cold’n
soon’f don’t regret bein’ slow’n
so’ll take a bite but sauce on first all over’t‘n
shoo ‘em flies off they annoyin’

transition said:

the lady just served the meal’n
warned me the eggs are a bit mangulated’n
sittin’ here now waitin’ be ate’n
ol’ writin’ shit in’t rectangle meal goin’ cold’n
soon’f don’t regret bein’ slow’n
so’ll take a bite but sauce on first all over’t‘n
shoo ‘em flies off they annoyin’

Couldn’t have said it better myself mr conjunction component……

>>>It is genuinely appropriate to recognise regret as being a tool of the mind necessary for self analysis and correction.

Regret is an emotion

Why not include all the other emotions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regret

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion

I’ve had a few but then again too few to mention.

CrazyNeutrino said:

>>>It is genuinely appropriate to recognise regret as being a tool of the mind necessary for self analysis and correction.

Regret is an emotion

Why not include all the other emotions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regret

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion

Becomes

It is genuinely appropriate to recognise emotion as being a tool of the mind necessary for self analysis and correction.

Sure, we’ve all got egrets.

dv said:

Sure, we’ve all got egrets.

The bovrils do anyway.

I egret dabbling in heron.

I’ve had just one, but it was a doozy.

Arts said:

I’ve had just one, but it was a doozy.

idgi

I regret leaning on my left elbow for half the night some weeks ago, and thereby unexpectedly buggering up my left hand.

Which I’ll be seeing the doc about again next week, and insisting it gets completely healed soon. Enough nonsense. I’m a fine musician and I need my hands.

dv said:

Arts said:

I’ve had just one, but it was a doozy.

idgi

Egret .. Massive it was. Ten feet tall.

Arts said:

dv said:

Arts said:

I’ve had just one, but it was a doozy.

idgi

Egret .. Massive it was. Ten feet tall.

damn

I find regret to be a self-destructive impulse. It tends to hang around for decades upon decades, even if doing anything else at the time would have been an unmitigated disaster.

mollwollfumble said:

I find regret to be a self-destructive impulse. It tends to hang around for decades upon decades, even if doing anything else at the time would have been an unmitigated disaster.

That would be regret of a minimally conscientious nature. Regret can be resolved as to be functional on a personal level, which is why i am questioning it’s nature as a global feature.

CrazyNeutrino said:

>>>It is genuinely appropriate to recognise regret as being a tool of the mind necessary for self analysis and correction.

Regret is an emotion

Why not include all the other emotions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regret

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion

Regret is a function of critical reasoning. The connected emotion we feel is apprehension of unresolved fallibility.

of many things it is better to view them as what they are, their function, the before they become the more extreme. So, of regret, it is better to see it as the lesser whatever, because it’s generally something avoided. The power of the more extreme (aversion) is what maintains much else.

of the more extreme, a philosopher once said, if you regret one thing you tend to regret everything.

so most regret is the avoiding of (things that might cause) regret, a lesser beast.

transition said:

so most regret is the avoiding of (things that might cause) regret, a lesser beast.

Once again that is all on the micro/individual level and the underdeveloped level also. If the individual conscientiously seeks to resolve regret related issues the facility becomes far more functional.

Postpocelipse said:

mollwollfumble said:

I find regret to be a self-destructive impulse. It tends to hang around for decades upon decades, even if doing anything else at the time would have been an unmitigated disaster.

That would be regret of a minimally conscientious nature. Regret can be resolved as to be functional on a personal level, which is why i am questioning it’s nature as a global feature.

yes, regret and a destructive nature always cause me problems, once i killed i had to keep killing again and again. i used to have a lot of regret but i don’t worry about it any more.

regret is a fairly broad thing, or subject
sure so be’t an ‘versive sensation
nobody likes or wants’t, that is obvious
sometimes’t go global of the mind
ladies perhaps more so wired different
guys maybe shrug’t off hard nose
dunno difference could be unimportant
some regret has social dimension
some it doesn’t, former you may mean
one do though ‘ave it say of extent
partly what privacy’t about in own mind