As I said, I wouldn’t want to consciously do such a thing. But our brains are a messy spaghetti-coded hack, with vital systems inherited from reptiles, written by a blind idiot, and not exactly built for objectively debating how to override nature and de-bias itself. An informal and grotesque flow diagram is what I’d expect to get if I tried to formalize what my mind was really up to when trying to rationally judge and study these posts.
Ah. Yes, I’m pretty sure this blog and her older sister have made me more rational since I clumsily stumbled into the latter, and that’s probably involved the informal flow diagrams in my head becoming a little less grotesque through maintenance.
Would you claim that by reading this blog and maintaining an informal and “grotesque” flow diagram in your head, you are growing more rational?
As I said, I wouldn’t want to consciously do such a thing. But our brains are a messy spaghetti-coded hack, with vital systems inherited from reptiles, written by a blind idiot, and not exactly built for objectively debating how to override nature and de-bias itself. An informal and grotesque flow diagram is what I’d expect to get if I tried to formalize what my mind was really up to when trying to rationally judge and study these posts.
I agree with this post completely.
However, you didn’t answer my question. I asked “Would you claim that you are growing more rational?”
Ah. Yes, I’m pretty sure this blog and her older sister have made me more rational since I clumsily stumbled into the latter, and that’s probably involved the informal flow diagrams in my head becoming a little less grotesque through maintenance.