- I error therefore I am
- We “know” erroring is human but strive avoid admitting it
- “You can either be ‘right’ or be in a relationship”
- How often are we actually wrong?
- We never feel wrong, we feel when we recognize we are wrong
- Specific mistakes are difficult for us to see and thus appear as an “act of God”
- To eliminate errors, we must know when we are wholly wrong and not just temporarily wrong
- Are errors tangents to the journey to truth or parts of the journey?
- “Err” meant “to move” and eventually gave us “error” and “erratic”
- “Wondering jew” was a curse from Christ to a Jew who teased Christ while carrying the cross
- Memories are poorly understood
- Memories are recreated every time we remember them
- (This makes them volatile, especially if they are interrupted when we are trying to resave them)
- We have a story maker and a fact checker in our brains
- Confabulation is when we make up a story while our fact checker is not available
- “There is no accounting for taste” but we tend to make accounts up
- “Belief” is an overt conviction
- We downplay things we want to dismiss as “self-serving” but drum up things we want to promote by stating it is truth
- Everyone that does not agree with us is because they are ignorant
- “Lack of evidence is not evidence of a lack”
- Wrong bets are not bad bets
- Inductive reasoning saves us a lot of thinking effort
- Be careful with tortured reasoning
- Most of our beliefs are “beliefs second-hand”
- We tend to “see” (alter our perception of the world) to adapt to how those around us see the world
- Our society has a “disagreement deficit”
- (That is, we lack the ability to politely disagree and remain friends)
- Cure, quarantine, or expel
- The original “Zealots” killed each other rather than risk capture
- Too many ideas and not enough convictions
- Doubt is a mental luxury
- Belief is the default; we must think to dismiss something
- We manufacture confidence to avoid having to reconsider if we could be wrong
- We revise our memories to better align with our current beliefs
- Theories are replaced but never dismissed unless a new theory is available
- Error detection tends to start with the smallest possible error rather than bigger issues
- Civilizations operate on the principal of shared expertise
- Denial is a response to feelings not facts
- We assume because we see people from the outside that we can know them from the outside
- We can never know what people are like on the inside
- (“We judge ourselves by our intentions; We just others by their actions”)
- “You don’t know me, but I know you”
- In love, we feel
- Recognition
- Timelessness
- Reunification
- Necessity
- “Everyone complains about their memory. No one complains about their judgement.”
- Loving is more like sharing a story than sharing a soul
- Our desire to be right is really our desire for our beliefs to adhere outside ourselves
- “Stories and theories may be all that we have that God does not”
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