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Any news on Peace Talks
Dina:
Yay, we have a date!!!!
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 16, 2019, 12:57:26 AM ---Which fools worry you then?
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It's not the fools at all. It's the people who are otherwise not foolish. It's kind of like any strongly held position. No matter what it is, some smart people disagree with it. That means, that no matter how smart you are, you are likely to be vehemently, adamantly, and proudly wrong about something. What am I vehemently, adamantly, and proudly wrong about? (That's a rhetorical question folks).
Yuillegan:
I get your point. Anyone too inflexible of thought, too dogmatic of belief, too narrow-minded, too insecure to have their views challenged and too arrogant or scared to be wrong is dangerous and difficult, and pitiable. Humans are more irrational than rational, it is quite literally how our brains work. The same area of the brain that signals DANGER lights up when our identity or views are attacked. Robots would never have such problems.
But a purely logical and unemotional society would be harsh, boring and probably wouldn't have made it as far. Certainly this wonderful series wouldn't have been written, for if Jim was purely logical in his attitude to writing he never would have believed he could write a 20 book series (as he puts it).
It's all about balance.
spiritofair:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on December 16, 2019, 11:41:08 PM ---It's not the fools at all. It's the people who are otherwise not foolish. It's kind of like any strongly held position. No matter what it is, some smart people disagree with it. That means, that no matter how smart you are, you are likely to be vehemently, adamantly, and proudly wrong about something. What am I vehemently, adamantly, and proudly wrong about? (That's a rhetorical question folks).
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This is a very interesting post. I've never thought about it that way. Thanks.
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: Yuillegan on December 17, 2019, 12:03:11 AM ---...Robots would never have such problems.
But a purely logical and unemotional society would be harsh, boring and probably wouldn't have made it as far. Certainly this wonderful series wouldn't have been written, for if Jim was purely logical in his attitude to writing he never would have believed he could write a 20 book series (as he puts it).
It's all about balance.
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Go to the grocery and stand and look at the canned green beans. While you're looking, you use an emotional process to decide which can to buy. You justify your choice with a veneer of rationality, but advertisers know better. If you took away all emotion than it is possible that you could make no choice at all. A guy won a Nobel Prize for his studies of the psychology of decision making.
And Bad Alias made an important point, everybody is
--- Quote --- inflexible of thought, too dogmatic of belief, too narrow-minded, too insecure to have their views challenged and too arrogant or scared to be wrong is dangerous and difficult, and pitiable.
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about something.
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