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> Its like our society is incapable of understanding nuance. Nope, it's the side effect of having bodied cognition. We're optimized to make good-enough decisio
by kleer001 9y ago
> Its like our society is incapable of understanding nuance.
Nope, it's the side effect of having bodied cognition. We're optimized to make good-enough decisions in less than a second with three pounds of expensive to maintain rarefied material.
Short cuts within hacks within crufty work-arounds. It's amazing that it works so well, naturally. But it's not American, it's not Western, heck, it's not even human, it's the nature of thought and action in an ever changing world.
Thinking in binaries is a supremely powerful way to chop up the world and let's not discount it as a first approximation towards survival.