An interesting aspect of humans is that their opinion and worldview are a direct product of how they take in information.
. You have probably heard the story of three blind men who were trying to understand what an elephant is. A blind man touched the elephant’s foot and concluded that an elephant was like the trunk of a giant tree. The other touched the tooth and concluded that the elephant was a spear and the last touched the trunk and concluded that the elephant must be some kind of wriggling snake.
And of course also the type of information they collect.
Similarly, people perceive the world in different ways that make sense to them given their means of perception and the information and information processing available to them. There are at least two ways
to take information. The oldest way is by feeling and experiencing, like the self-taught mechanic who can fix an engine but can’t tell you how it works. Lao Tsu would approve. A newer way is to assign words to our experience and speak. This presents a problem in that when I say “dog” and you hear me say “dog”, are we talking about the same dog? This way of assimilating information dispenses with experience and rather frames it in a language framework that can be words, logic, emotions or values. A person can ignore his experiences to the point that he can no longer tie his shoelaces. There are also at least two ways to reach conclusions that lead to action. They both start with certain values, but one system prioritizes values according to how they make them and other people feel, and the other prioritizes values according to the rules of logic.
A very human trait is to form an opinion early on, for example, when 20 percent of the information is provided, after which supporting information is used to reinforce one’s preliminary conclusion, while contrary information is used to reinforce one’s preliminary conclusion. discard. This is a quick way to make people very decisive, which is good in an emergency, but it’s also a way to make sure people stay wrong for a long time.
Another very human trait is to ponder recent information more than historical information or worse, ponder it more than “what is not seen”. The latter is the cause of an enormous amount of confusion. You could almost say that the entire field of economics is dedicated to solving this problem (the broken window fallacy), at least after a couple of beers. In physics, this many-worlds problem has been solved using wave functions; it is usually presented backwards by saying that many worlds is one way of interpreting the wave function.
I’m willing to bet money (I wouldn’t win all the time but I would win most of the time) that if you believe in all omnipresent resonance fields or a collective consciousness or if you believe there is something bigger than yourself but you can’t pinpoint it, or if you’re always looking for answers, you’re probably ignoring the experience and thinking in the abstract, assessing your conclusions according to how they make you feel. You just “know” that there is something bigger than yourself. On the contrary, if you continue to disregard the experience of the world around you, that is, you continue to philosophize but use logic, you are forced to conclude that there are no things that are greater than yourself and those that are. they can be understood (because if you can’t understand, it’s not relevant, see?
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) which basically means you “own” or control them and are no longer in awe. If you’re used to experiencing things, chances are you’re just like everyone else. The reason is that since you don’t spend a lot of time in your own world, that is, in your own head, you will spend time in other people’s world. You will talk about “what everyone is talking about”.
Yes, everyone is practically a slave to their build.
You may think you know the truth, but don’t you?
The most effective prison is the one you can’t see, your own brain.
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