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there is much wrong with this post, I'm embarrassed to respond to it. Our minds don't interpret the world through a binary model. Abandoning your rational mind

there is much wrong with this post, I'm embarrassed to respond to it. Our minds don't interpret the world through a binary model. Abandoning your rational mind means what exactly?

whoisjuan 4y ago
Look at the rest of the debate below the original answer, and maybe you will get an idea of what I meant. My choice of words shouldn’t be the basis for attacking my points, especially since there’s more context in this very same thread that expands on my ideas. Maybe instead of coming against me with an incendiary comment, make an effort to gain more insight into my views and add some value to the discussion. Again, my choice of words might be the wrong articulation of my ideas, but you just need to ask politely, and I will gladly expand and try to find better words. Also, if you’re embarrassed to respond, then why did you? Please read the Hacker News guidelines if you forgot about them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- SubiculumCode 4y ago
  You are right. I apologize for my rude behavior. COVID has been rough on me.
  - whoisjuan 4y ago
    Don’t sweat it. Thanks for the reply. And if it helps at all I agree that “binary” was the wrong word. I couldn’t come up with anything else that articulated what I was thinking. What I meant is that us humans have this tendency to describe the world through dualistic models: good and bad, light and dark, mind and body, reason and emotion, nurture and nature, etc. Inarguably this model has helped us to rationalize a lot of insights about the universe. However there are probabably a lot of ideas about our universe that can only be described through a dialectic model. In fact, it was this type of thinking what allowed Einstein to image the paradox that gave birth to the general theory of relativity.

there is much wrong with this post, I'm embarrassed to respond to it. Our minds don't interpret the world through a binary model. Abandoning your rational mind means what exactly?

whoisjuan 4y ago

Look at the rest of the debate below the original answer, and maybe you will get an idea of what I meant. My choice of words shouldn’t be the basis for attacking my points, especially since there’s more context in this very same thread that expands on my ideas. Maybe instead of coming against me with an incendiary comment, make an effort to gain more insight into my views and add some value to the discussion. Again, my choice of words might be the wrong articulation of my ideas, but you just need to ask politely, and I will gladly expand and try to find better words. Also, if you’re embarrassed to respond, then why did you? Please read the Hacker News guidelines if you forgot about them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

SubiculumCode 4y ago
You are right. I apologize for my rude behavior. COVID has been rough on me.
- whoisjuan 4y ago
  Don’t sweat it. Thanks for the reply. And if it helps at all I agree that “binary” was the wrong word. I couldn’t come up with anything else that articulated what I was thinking. What I meant is that us humans have this tendency to describe the world through dualistic models: good and bad, light and dark, mind and body, reason and emotion, nurture and nature, etc. Inarguably this model has helped us to rationalize a lot of insights about the universe. However there are probabably a lot of ideas about our universe that can only be described through a dialectic model. In fact, it was this type of thinking what allowed Einstein to image the paradox that gave birth to the general theory of relativity.