Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Did you understand what you read?



85% fat free
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15% fat
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We eat it or we do not
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If using our logical senses and our rules of good diet we do not eat it because it is not good for us period
.
If on the other hand we use our emotional side we eat it because it is only 15% fat and we want it and we find excuses, justifications
.
We use nuances to make our decision
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Nuances that are often based on illusions
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So let us look at what goes on in our brains
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With the rule determined part of our brains
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Rule determined behaviour though does not require nuances
.
Either you kill your neighbor or you do not
.
Intermediate sentiments are either useless or downright dangerous
.
Our emotions jolt us into action because it does not understand or accept nuances
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For a long time or even today most of us think that we are endowed with a beautiful machine for thinking and understanding things
.
The problem with thinking is that it cause you to develop illusions
.
And thinking may be a waste of energy
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Who needs it?
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You do not have everything you know in your mind at all times so you retrieve what you need in a piecemeal fashion when you need it
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Which puts these retrieved chunks in their local context
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This means that you have an arbitrary reference point forgetting that you are only looking at the differences from that particular perspective of the local context not the absolutes
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This can help us understand our behaviour
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Like eating that cake

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