Does learning and implementing mind hacks count as changing one’s mind?
Seems to me that if you do so, your mind literally changes. And it does so in a way which is probably much more important to your life than taking a different view of Newomb’s Paradox or the Fermi Paradox.
Besides, the line between changing one’s opinion and learning something new can be rather blurry. For example, I have learned through this discussion board as well as a couple other blogs that humans can and do have contradictory beliefs and models in their minds. Before learning that I had not given the issue much thought and pretty much assumed that if a person believes X, they believe X, and that’s pretty much it.
Does learning and implementing mind hacks count as changing one’s mind?
Seems to me that if you do so, your mind literally changes. And it does so in a way which is probably much more important to your life than taking a different view of Newomb’s Paradox or the Fermi Paradox.
Besides, the line between changing one’s opinion and learning something new can be rather blurry. For example, I have learned through this discussion board as well as a couple other blogs that humans can and do have contradictory beliefs and models in their minds. Before learning that I had not given the issue much thought and pretty much assumed that if a person believes X, they believe X, and that’s pretty much it.
I edited the article to clarify what I mean.