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“no one ever goes looking for IFS or attachment theory or shadow work or whatever else because they're just curious. we all know that we're here to try to understand the heartache at the center of our being” - qc i. functionality at some point during college i decided it would be smart to avoid thinking about peoples’ internal states and instead reason about them purely behaviorally. i think this happened in part because i was studying functional programming (which focuses on function application rather than state as the basis for understanding programs), and also because i was studying psychology (which tries to explain human behavior without understanding neuroscience or how the brain actually works) it wasn’t just the subjects i was studying though. the functional perspective also felt grounded in a meaningful way: i could observe other peoples’ behaviors but would never be able to access their thoughts or consciousness, so why not focus on the behaviors in front of me instead of sp

“no one ever goes looking for IFS or attachment theory or shadow work or whatever else because they're just curious. we all know that we're here to try to understand the heartache at the center of our being” - qc i. functionality at some point during college i decided it would be smart to avoid thinking about peoples’ internal states and instead reason about them purely behaviorally. i think this happened in part because i was studying functional programming (which focuses on function application rather than state as the basis for understanding programs), and also because i was studying…

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