And thems telling words right there Neil, 'you like the notion...' What if the notion I like(which is just a wordy way of saying what I like to believe) is quite the opposite of what you like to belive, then what of the truth?
Truth itself is a rather cameloen like beast. What sort of truth would you like us all to belive? On 28 Jan, 23:04, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > This is quite subtle Oxford shit Lee - we are mere oiks - yet I like > the notion that we could better believe in what is true. > > On 28 Jan, 17:20, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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.- Hide > > > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
