Hey Neil, Perhaps until we can answer the question, what is true? We are all quite doomed!
On 28 Jan, 00:04, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
