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energy <--> self-control 1. monitor 2. practice to hold yourself little longer, when it feels unplesant 3. take the mind out of the middle. 4. increase friction towards bad habits/ impulses.
I was hoping to gain more knowledge about our ignorance but this feels more like a fun exercise to use at a party. This is probably why social media grifters ignorantly use this study for views and interactions.
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I have always been acutely aware of the things I do not know. I'd be very interested in learning how the final determination of correct responses versus incorrect responses based on "factual" information was made? Particularly in the realms of politics, or gender ideologies... 😂
Unfortunately, a lot of those historical sources that have been placed out there in cyberspace by reputable historians, disappear after awhile, as those historians pass away, retire or move on to new jobs, despite the valuable web resources that they may provide at the time. The fact that the web is so temporal, is also one of its ultimate shortcomings. If the worldwide web wasn't so ad-hoc in its preservation of information, it would have a much more powerful impact on human learning than its current ephemeral nature. Even entire university presentations disappear when personnel move on to new locales.
I studied World History with Kevin Reilly in 1980 at what was then Somerset County Community College. I was unable to continue my college education after that until the later 2000s at Stony Brook University, where the head of the History Department regularly used Dr. Reilly's excerpted writings for his lectures. He is a very inciteful professor whom only retired recently. He engendered a lot of original thinking about the subject of history from a global perspective.
You can not "know" something if it is not true. Knowledge requires True Belief. If you say Earth is 4th planet from the sun then you are wrong and can not know Earth is 4th.
Regarding politics, I think it's especially difficult because of the amount of deliberate misinformation put out during elections. Couple that with the confirmation bias people have which leads them to reject truth when it conflicts with that which they already believe. Then you have a real problem indeed. I've heard the term willful ignorance. Has there been a study of that yet?
The main problem is: some people are not wishing to solve anything if it’s not profitabe…. Lately, climate was also politicizing. The science is real, true , but some events were manipulated to accelerate the decision make. Who defends science must be against any kind of manipulation and eco terrorism. Transparence is everything. It’s trust. Without trust we cannot have science. Climate is real. The loss of biodiversity is real. The problems of public and individual health are real. But please, never manipulate data to demonstrate what can be seen with a analytic , critical mind, real data, correct methods. And of course cooperation in order to shift to a clean, sustainable and healthy energy, and fair politics, and any business models and
HiTop is the most ridiculous, fascist, non-objective, unscientific thing I've ever heard of. Gee, what level of flirtatiousness is pathological, and who gets to decide? Pure idiocy.
Knowledge and ignorance have some significant traits in common, and one glaring difference: 1. Both are based on what we glean from what we are taught or exposed to. 2. Both are the result of how we interpret or understand that which we have been exposed to. 3. Both are the result of the human cognitive process - how our internal thought process interprets what we have been taught or exposed to, whether the conclusions we draw are right or wrong. (This is one of the differences between knowledge and ignorance, the other is *sticking* to conclusions which are later proven to be incorrect.) 4. Sometimes, we don’t have enough information to properly process what we have been exposed to, so we either try to figure it out based on our current, existing knowledge base, or we guess. Both of these processes fall well within the realm of intelligent thought processes. (For instance, I had never heard of ‘hypo cognition’ but I know the difference between ‘hypo’ and ‘hyper’, and what cognition means. I was able to successfully guess the meaning based on my previous knowledge base. Teaching and learning are not about teaching or memorizing rote facts, but rather learning how to intelligently figure things out.) HOWEVER, sometimes we guess wrong. If and when that happens, being willing to walk away from that meaning is probably the hardest part of being intelligent; a leap most can’t make. Ego, will, and stubbornness are the Great Barriers that springs up between Knowledge and Ignorance. Sometimes that barrier is so profound an individual is totally unable to realize how uninformed they are. A person can also be too stubborn to admit that they may have drawn the wrong conclusions (or are just ‘wrong’). That is a problem of ego. Ignorance springs from an inability to divorce oneself from previously self-held notions and ideas, while willfully choosing to stick slavishly to what (we) think we know. The glaring difference between the two states (Knowledge and Ignorance) is simply being able to have a mind always open to learning, and, most difficult of all, disposing of that which has been proven to be false instead of clinging to it. (In addition, it doesn’t hurt to realize that we, at any given time, know far less than we don’t know.)
How do you measure happiness of parents? We all know intuitively children bring happiness which means you have thevwrong definition of happiness. Ask parents if children bring you purpose and the results would be overwhelming yes
Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
I was fortunate enough to have Dr. Myers for my senior seminar at Hope College in 1979. He was always happy! Years later I read Pursuit of Happiness. What a blessing!
22:13 The problem is not with not knowing. The problem is that the knowledge is unreliable and debatable, and inaccurate information has been allowed to inhabit people’s minds who don’t have the skill, the desire, or the time to sift wheat from chaff. In addition to quantity (informational inflation), the relevance criteria has been dispensed with. People are bombarded with lots of information- some accurate, some not, all the while not knowing what is relevant or not. Add to that the social stigma of not knowing. There’s little wonder, then, that people are stultified and happy with it. After all, why make the effort to employ anything else but ‘hypocognition’ if stupidity can get you very far in life?
