To pick up where we left off, emotions helped us learn and evaluate the world around us in a binary way. Things are either good or bad according to our feelings, and their intensity prioritizes our reactions [1]. However, emotions have shortcomings. They are blind to changes, amount, components and multivariable analyses; in other words, they’re short-sighted. We can see […]
To resume the discussion about human sacrifice, we saw that it’s a rational decision by nature [1]. Thinking tells us to sacrifice short-term gains for long-term benefits [2]. So, our primitive ancestors killed one because they believed [3] that it would save many. We embarked on the journey to know how we’ve evolved to fight Death [4]. Then Homosapiens created […]
In order to fight Death [1], we evolved to detect dangers, then to emotionally react to them [2]. However, emotional evaluations have their intrinsic shortcomings, so thinking developed to counsel the emotional brain, providing it with more providential solutions [3]. A self-reflective mind should raise the question “how reliable is thinking?” Finding an answer to this question is vitally important […]
In the last post, we discussed that in order to modify emotional decisions, we need to have a trained brain and enough energy. We also studied one type of battles between head and heart: holistic evaluation [1]. Through this post, we’ll investigate other areas on which head and heart might not see eye to eye. Let’s study how we emotionally […]
In the last post, we studied the case that the tattoo of a tiger could make the primitive people believe that they possessed the tiger’s hunting skill [1], because they prematurely generalized [2] that if two things have the same form, they’ll have similar characteristics. In order to falsify this belief [3], you must be able to dissect things and […]
In the last post, I stated that thinking is self-communication [1]. We can’t possibly think without language. Let’s try to falsify the statement. Carl Gustav Jung [2], in “Man and his symbols” [3], has divided the process of experiencing a thing [4] into 4 steps: Sensation or sense perception tells us whether the thing exists or not. [5] Feeling evaluates […]
In the quest of meaning, we’ve explored how emotional tags can modulate its importance [1]. Recall some events and try to figure out the most important one. Most likely, it must’ve been the most emotional experience [2]. The duality of life and death [3] has shaped our feelings: we either like or dislike things. These two basic feelings branch into […]
In the last post, we discussed that due to minergy [1] and the fear of taking responsibility, we’d be rather inclined to receive suggested solutions than to think to solve our problems [2]. Earlier we discussed why fear is the most fundamental and dominant emotion [3]. The diagram below illustrates how fear can affect our decisions [4]. Fear works like […]
So far, we’ve discussed that in order to survive, we need to solve problems and due to limited energy, our brain has developed minergy [1] the tendency to spend minimum energy to get things done. Thus, the fastest and least effortful solutions are prioritized. Minergy has formed our reactions in two ways: First of all, it creates habits which are […]
In the last post, we opened up the discussion about supersigns as the building blocks of meanings [1] which enable us to show intelligent reactions to our environment and are created before concepts. Example 10: A new-born baby calms down faster when it smells her mom’s scent even coming from a blanket. This simple action signifies that the scent of […]
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