created: `=dateformat(this.file.ctime, "DDDD, HH:mm")` updated: `=dateformat(this.file.mtime, "DDDD, HH:mm")` tags: #technologicallove/concepts related notes: [[Attachment as fear of change and fear of reality]] # essence [[Attachment]] is a way of being where the being clings to a particular [[technologicallove/concepts/form|form]] of the [[world]]. It is the holding tightly to something that is causing you harm. [[Attachment]] is disproportionate belief due to [[fear]]. It is when you believe something to a different degree than you have evidence for (i.e. in a [[Bayesian daoism|Bayesian]] inference process) due to fear that the world may be different than you hope/wish/desire it to be. The opposite of attachment is [[acceptance]]. # expansion Attachment is a common expression of [[fear]], as we hold onto patterns, habits, [[ownership]] of things, and other [[ways of being]], that are familiar, as this can often appear safer than facing the unknown. Unfortunately, human fear behavioral patterns of attachment evolved in a time when the familiar could be counted on and where progressive learning, expansion, and metamorphosis were not required. Attachment often ties us to the known at the expense of our wellbeing. This pattern is expressed in the proverb "better the devil you know than the devil you don't." Attachment can be conscious or unconscious and often manifests in surprising ways. Attaching to a belief or a way of being The opposite of attachment is not detachment, but [[acceptance]].