Frome QUORA: When did the worldwide idiocracy revolution happen? I missed it. Because people mainly draw upon the thinking of others, the conditions were always there to support the collective derailment. Mass psychogenic illness - Wikipedia If people do not reason, and most do not, they are very...
Read MoreHow do you, as in yourself, deal with people who won't engage in rational conversation concerning political policy? You know the type, the tribalist that cannot even be reasoned with even if you expose them to actual facts. What do you do? Most people don’t reason....
Read MoreIs there a point at which freedom of speech becomes treason? A line at which political conspiracy propaganda becomes intolerable? Never. We must rely on the rationality of people to sort out the “propaganda”. Anything less would lead to authoritarianism by some “truth expert”, or worse,...
Read MoreWhy do people follow politicians blindly even when they are responsible for their doom? It is horrible. They do, but it is how the mind works. We learn two different ways: Reason – where many plausible ideas exist, and the reasoners must act to disprove the false ones. The...
Read MoreIn narcissism, people act to project, not just protect, their mind’s truths. Belief systems, like religions, are dangerous when the adherents become aggressive and oppressing advocates for them. It may be a mild form of mental illness. Nevertheless, it is a narcissistic (i.e. pathological)emotional defense of...
Read MoreWho wants more control over our lives, the “right” or “left”? To be rational is to recognize that (1) there is absolute truth, but that (2) one cannot claim to know it. Yet a religion is a passionate claim to know a belief, or set of beliefs,...
Read MoreWhy can't the far left tolerate opinions that differ from their own? It is because they are irrational. That is, their mind believes it knows the truth (however, in rationality you can’t: proof). SHORT EXPLANATION: Irrational people are connected to (applying) their beliefs outside of their capacity to...
Read MoreShould citizens always take at face value everything that their government tells them is the truth? No. For a number of reasons: People, thus governments, are frequently irrational. Therefore, what the governments communicate can never be the truth;The communicators, i.e. the media, are irrational. They inescapably have a...
Read MoreIsn't "machine learning" a misleading phrase? I don’t think so. Humans primary learn in two ways: (1) evolutionary (classical conditioning/operant conditioning via the amygdala), and (2) developmental (reason & problem solving). See the figure below. And for computers … “The difference between ML [machine learning] and AI [artificial intelligence]...
Read MoreHow can you tell if media “fear porn” is having an influence on your mind and behavior? Fear, if you are prone to fear on some specific subject, is always attempting to influence your behavior. That’s the human design. All emotional responses originate in the amygdala (see figure below)....
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