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[It's been some time since Lust simply posed a vaguely self-relevant and general philosophy question to the network, but apparently it's that time. She's sitting at her desk in her room, the trio of small Espurr draped over her - one on each shoulder and one in her lap, just peering over the edge of the desk at the 'gear screen. There's a book open in front of her, and anyone willing to turn the screen to try and read it will discover it's a rather simplistic book on dream interpretation. Lust has been making corrective notes in it.]

Has anyone else ever noted how personal patterns develop?

The entertainment we seek out, the recreational activities, types of people... humans establish personal patterns and preferences. One wonders why.

I don't mean why we have preferences in general, but why we develop the ones that we do? One could argue it's a comfort of familiarity, but comfort isn't always a factor. Take those who's joy is found in risk taking and difficult tasks. Or those who seek out things that are bad for them.

[Or her own preference for damaged, emotionally crippled men.]

Simply something I've been thinking on. Sometimes it seems as though the phrase 'the logical mind' is grossly inappropriate.

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I suppose it is. Obviously we're influenced heavily by our experiences, but...

Oh, I don't know. Maybe I've just been thinking too much. God knows I do that.

There's nothing wrong with thinking! We have so much time to do so in this world, after all. Especially when travel opportunities are cut short.

[She's just going to get comfy on her couch. A Bunnelby scoots over towards her and lounges in her lap, and one of her hands goes to scritch him behind those big ears.]

I think...there's probably some things that would've been innate in each of us no matter what. Genetics would determine what we can do, how well we can do it, and then the environment we live in would provide us opportunities depending on the time we're living in, the kind of situation your family has...it's a fairly complicated sort of...machine, I guess? Though not the menacing kind of machine. Or...maybe not a machine, I don't know. The main thing I find myself comparing it to in my head are like...clockwork cogs, if that makes sense? All the little parts moving together to create one greater thing, working as they can based on their condition and upkeep.

[Lust is quiet a moment, thinking over what Jane's said.]

An interesting way to look at it. One wonders...how much comes from what. What small parts make up which bit of the whole.

Mm, it'd probably take ages to map out something like that...studies over multiple lifetimes...something incredibly extensive. But even then, would we be able to quantify it?

There must be some way. Surely everything can be quantified in some way. It only takes time and understanding.

But would the people alive when it's just about to be quantifiable even care at that point? Would they abandon it all and let it be forgotten again? So much relies on the continued effort to do something, after all.

I would hope they'd care. People should care. How can we possibly understand ourselves if we can't even properly understand how the mind functions?

That's true...and in this world, at least, the amount of caring people do seems to be at a level you could see from space, if it were light or something. It's very strong, plain and simple.

That's certainly true, at least. God knows how many people here have helped me come to know myself as well as I do...

Yeah...

[There's a quiet, contemplative pause.]

...I guess we really lucked out, huh? Out of all the things that could've happened, we ended up here.

Yes, we did. There are so many worlds and so many places of strife and difficulty, and yet we've somehow found ourselves here.

Even those of us who ought not be anywhere.

At the very least...they were here. And not someplace else. At least for that little while, or long while. I think that counts.

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