How can we better believe what is true? While it is of course useful to seek and study relevant information, our minds are full of natural tendencies to bias our beliefs via overconfidence, wishful thinking, and so on. Worse, our minds seem to have a natural tendency to convince us that we are aware of and have adequately corrected for such biases, when we have done no such thing.
There's a blog on this at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute (easy to google). Sad stuff on my brief scan, though I will return. The question seems key and I wondered whether we could do better with it. My own views include a notion of relativism that recognises realism is implied and non-philosophic tropical fish realism. I won't bore on this in here - at a somewhat more practical level I think we are in a plight that involves trauma and a need to believe we can live more rationally and justly in public affairs. This involves not using argument as a weapon and accepting some stuff is intolerable. I would see this as key to a future for humanity. Obama is a bit of a hope here, but only if we can gather round. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
