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Sometimes it's not possible to know the correct answer to something because you are missing critical information, but people are really good at rationalizing a
by zaphar 4y ago
Sometimes it's not possible to know the correct answer to something because you are missing critical information, but people are really good at rationalizing a plausible answer to the question. Taken to the extreme this causes controversy where none need exist. The example problem she is talking about highlights how there are any number of perfectly consistent and rational patterns to observe but to truly know the actual answer you need the creator of the problem to explain it because as presented there is critical missing information.
A little bit of empathy and kindness allows you to consider the fact that someone else's explanation has just as much plausibility as yours and can avoid lashing out or diminishing someone else's analysis.
I don't know for sure that this is what Vihart meant in her video but it is how I understood it.
- O__________O 4y agoAgree, after thinking it over, believe it’s very similar to way author Dave Gray describes how people relate with one another in his book Liminal Thinking, which has a brief video on the topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WNAB3V80ZvU https://youtube.com/watch?v=WNAB3V80ZvU I would go further to even say that frequently people fail to understand the value of sticking to their construction of reality instead of compromising and acknowledging alternative realities, even ones that might in fact be provably false, but in sum produce less negative impact than forcing your reality upon them. One might even say that’s actually more reasonable than applying rigorous unwavering reasoning to everyone and everything.