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Why do we experience boredom?

Slay said:
cuz all humans born with a genetic disease called "sobriety" ;)
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Lol!!! Agreed. But I think we get bored because for some of us when our minds wander, its usually a bad thing, so if we are bored our minds will wander. Our brains want to keep it from wandering so it gives you this 'bored' feeling and you decide to do something about it! That's completely my opinion there is no facts to it.(that I know of)
 
yeh xorkoth, i guess that sums it up. i first encountered this philosophy reading timothy leary and alan watts - the fellows who opened my mind after my first acid trip :)

ds smoking joints that out of boredom. con
sp..yesterday sciously used my "will" 4 yahtzees, and i everyone was shocked elieve me whwon with 540 points.en i said it was on purposeaking of boredom.e. i think i and playing yahtzee...and iedo things liki waand disturbed, but still didnt bs with so (magic sense) to getme frien
 
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I'd love it if you could come back and fix up this post, because to be honest with you I have no idea what you're trying to say, except it sounds like you felt like you willed yourself to get 4 Yahtzees in a row.
 
We are bored because we run out of weed and we can't always be having sex...So we grow bored and allude to a time in our mind when we are doing either or both...
 
To push us to seek new stimuli. It's evolutionary. An agitation that kicks us out of a groove.
 
^ That's an interesting opinion, but please don't express it as scientific fact ("It's evolutionary" - do you have a source for that claim?).

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As for my own opinion, I agree with posters above saying it has to do with fear of death.

However, recently I've been noticing that it may have something to do with the lack of interest in learning. I personally rarely get bored... in fact I don't think I have since my childhood. I find that there never is enough time to learn, and therefore ANY free time I have, I spend it learning about something. If there is no way to do this, I meditate. If still I cannot do that, I think about sex, which eventually leads to me falling asleep ;).
 
No I don't have a source. Just a theory - but it makes sense. Curiosity, exploration, interaction have evolutionary advantages and appropriately tuned inclinations for them would be selected for. Generally I'm happy to believe that most ubiquitous, pan-species behaviours are evolutionary...

I don't think it has to have anything to do with fear of death. Little kids with no concept of mortality get bored.
 
But what good is curiosity, a love to learn, interaction, rejoicing, etc, when you're absolutely bound by constricted circumstances beyond your control? Some people are more sensitive to the parameters of social and political elements that surround them. I mean, there's the freak show, and a people who flock to watch them: who, would you imagine, gets bored over whom?
 
^ I think you are being too vague but I'll try to reply anyway.

If you think that your surroundings are not good enough for you to learn about, then perhaps you need to reexamine your ego?
 
My ego? What does my ego have to do with this? I really don't understand this contemporary itch people have today for disparaging the ego from... why, from their egotistical sandboxes. It doesn't make sense to me. Is individuality such a bad thing?

Anyway, when one perceives with one's senses, one's history, one's being, one can hardly attribute that to the ego alone. So the ego filtrates perceptions. Big deal. But what, in the end, has to live with these perceptions? The ego? Or some obscure notion of a ghostly collective "non-self" supposedly unaffected by self-identity? What would be the point of opinions then, of attitudes, of reactions, of "the pleasure of thinking for oneself" if one shouldn't also identify with one's ego, aka, individuality?
 
Way to miss the whole point.

I was using "ego" in the English sense of the world, not as a psychoanalytic function.

Let me rephrase.

"If you think that your surroundings are not good enough for you to learn about, then perhaps you need to reexamine your arrogance (which, btw, is very apparent from the tone of your posts)?"
 
Boredom is the inability to entertain your own thoughts...it's not living up to your own personal responsibility to maintain enthusiasm about anything.
That's not based on any 'scientific research' and I don't think there would be one 'solid theory' about it...I just know it to be true. Boredom's counterpart, I would say, is Motivation.
 
Please don't get me wrong. You are free to express your opinions as such all you want.

What I mean is that if you put your opinions in specifically scientific language, then you need to do the scientific thing.
 
Fear of death. The mind has trouble being at rest. It feels it needs challenges, to always be on the move or it will die.
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err.. i'll have to think about it, but at first glance i don't see the connection

and without having thought about it, i would just say that our minds are quite developped and need "food" = something to keep them busy

i look at spiders hanguing on their web all day long. they apparently don't know about boredom

dogs look around and are curious. their brains are more evolved and need some "brain food"

same but pushed further for humans
boredom is the frustration of our brains when they don't get to fulfill their potential
they're "hungry" for data to interpret
 
i've read psychological inputs on the cause of boredom, mostly being anxiety and agitation put onto one's self. so there's "nothing to do" and we get "bored" but mostly it's this longing for stimulation, yet the person who is bored puts no action into doing something productive or fun because they are "bored" and there is "nothing to do", i guess it's cyclical. but the way to break the cycle is to just get up and do something- regardless of what it is. i think everyone wants to be entertained more so than be active however.

but not everything is entertaining. when i'm bored i like to work out. it's not exactly entertaining, but it is enjoyable and healthy. or when i'm bored, i'll read, go outside, smoke a cigarette, etc. to sit around and do nothing only further perpetuates the problem
 
vegan said:
err.. i'll have to think about it, but at first glance i don't see the connection

and without having thought about it, i would just say that our minds are quite developped and need "food" = something to keep them busy

i look at spiders hanguing on their web all day long. they apparently don't know about boredom

dogs look around and are curious. their brains are more evolved and need some "brain food"

same but pushed further for humans
boredom is the frustration of our brains when they don't get to fulfill their potential
they're "hungry" for data to interpret
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Animals unless they have been raised around people for a very long time, are always in the timeless now.

Motivation to seek new stimuli sounds like a good physiological reason.
 
Jamshyd said:
What I mean is that if you put your opinions in specifically scientific language, then you need to do the scientific thing.[/color]
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What do you mean by "specifically scientific"? Are you referring to "it's evolutionary"?

Again about boredom coming from thoughts of death - little kids with no concept of mortality get bored. I think that puts the nail in the coffin.
 
Papa said:
What do you mean by "specifically scientific"? Are you referring to "it's evolutionary"?

Again about boredom coming from thoughts of death - little kids with no concept of mortality get bored. I think that puts the nail in the coffin.
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You misunderstand the phrase "fear of death" it dosen't mean an actual concious fear of death but a subconcious experience.
 
xorky, i actually purposefully jumbled that post in favour of deleting it due to embarassment :D

im sure you can figure it out with patience...study.... a mere few hours is insufficient to decode it fully
 
saying that something like boredom is evolutionary is a bit odd, to project a method of science we can barely use to make long-lasting batteries, into the realm of existentialism...
 
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