Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-05-23]: Humans may be able to communicate positive emotions like happiness through the smell of our sweat, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science [1]. We have learnt that we need to be clean. (health) We have learnt that as observers we must not affect what we observe. (science) We have learnt that we should not affect our environment. (ecology) We have learnt to be rational and not let our thought be affected by external factors. (rationalism) We have learnt not to live. But to live means to get dirty. To affect things. To get affected. To be irrational. To sweat…
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