Comment on Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago“Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don’t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
As you get closer to understanding the truth, the more depressing reality feels because you realize how stuck on rails your life really is, how much of your conscious experience is just an elaborate illusion, a rich, chunky stew of assumptions, of super-imposed visuals and perceptions, of stories and rationalizations. Even the idea that we can choose what we’re thinking about is barely, BARELY accurate.
If we as a species have any free will at all, it’s a tiny kernel, a tiny little seed that few people even attempt to nurture.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
i have yet too se anyone provide a good reason why i should care about free will at all
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Very fair point and I am fine with the knowledge that I don’t have much free will, but I do still believe we can affect change on our world, it’s just not the kind of decision making we think we understand. It’s just not a black-and-white thing, nothing in the universe really is, everything has a spectrum and so does free-will.
If everyone has even a tiny speck of actual cognitive ability to make a choice that impacts us all, even if it’s the teeniest, tiniest impact, if you can get billions of people to make this small change, you could potentially have massive effects on the whole world. You may not have nearly as much conscious choice as you think about things like, what you eat for dinner and what your job is, but we still DO have a world with causality and it appears we can do things that have cause and effect.