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The human species is just not build for logic. The process seems to be: 1. Search for a heuristic 2. Glue Logic Bits to the found heuristic 3. Generate a coh
by Pica_soO 10y ago
The human species is just not build for logic. The process seems to be:
1. Search for a heuristic
2. Glue Logic Bits to the found heuristic
3. Generate a coherent backstory for heuristic
4. Query parts of the Backstory to check the heuristic.
5. If Part of the Backstory fall apart, reconstruct
6. If reconstruction fails, have a crisis.
7. If crisis continues, start to think it through for the first time or
8. Solve by discrediting facts (aka believes)
Its very efficient. The only time, its not completely efficient is during youth, as this is the time, one has to carve out a thiefdom for oneself. Also a slight trait of intellectual sado machismo helps.
I think to get normal people to think and question believes, education as proposed is a rather lousy tool, applied often too late. If you are tempted to question "everything" at 21, that phase of your life is almost over.
Kindergarten age and first years at school, should be ideal- basically teachers should weave in wrong "days" where they would tell falsehoods, and reward those discovering and questioning.