the psychological suffering

>>8338976
It's more of a meme thing than a gene thing. It has to do with the perspective that one is raised in.

If you we're genuinely convinced that your dead loved one was living it up on cloud 9, than the despair would probably not be there. You would probably still suffer from not seeing them anymore, but that's a product of the value you placed in their company for reasons which are again more psychosocial than innately neurobiological.

>>8338993
That said, there are many innate biological factors which lead to a tendency in our forming such values. It's highly adaptable to value relationships with kin and like-minded people.

buddhism

>>8338976
Its part of the mechanism that motivates you to keep them alive/a side effect of the social bonding that is hugely advantageous to us

>>8339079
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>>8338976
>Wouldn't it be easier to survive if we didn't feel despair?
Clearly not, or we wouldnt

>>8339222
you don't understand evolution bro

>>8339476
Elaborate

>>8338976
Wonder if most of our mental dysfunctions come from being maladaptive to our current environment. Kind of a "you can take man out of nature, but you can't take nature out of man" type thing.

>>8339570
I think this is true to a reasonable degree, but it also pays to remember the mind is an extremely complex system and failures/mistakes are inevitable

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>>8338976
>Wouldn't it be easier

Natural selection acts only upon what a population currently has to work with. Mutations are random. Traits don't evolve because organisms need them.

welcome to the suffering

>>8338976
>Is there a biological purpose behind the psychological suffering,
Despair has nothing to do with biology, despair is psychological

>YES psychology functions because of biology HOWEVER: >>8339622

>>8339626
>>8339622
Pretty retarded to assume psychological traits are not heritable. Also extremely hard to believe a heritably less intense reaction to despair hasnt cropped up.

Far more reasonable to presume our psychological traits are adaptive or at least neutral

>>8338976
you feel things for SO in order to protect SO
SO dies
you failed your biological programming
you are punished
use that big brain of your to circumnavigate this problem and do drugs

The negativity dampens the positive neural paths you formed for the subject so you let go and possibly have room for new relations.

I.e. a primate mother letting go of the body of her dead baby after a while.