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To: devane617
Short version.

It is possible to be so open minded that your brain falls out.

Ok, slightly longer version, according to the article there are three ways of thinking about things, there are those who believe there is one truth, there are those who believe there are many truths, and there are those who try to take what is presented and run it through the filter of logic to say what is or is not truth.

That last, in the "truth" of the researchers, is what is the highest order of thinking. It isn't but lets leave that for now.

There is a lot of blah blah but it comes down to if you only are allowed one view point you have the first kind of thinking, if you only had one view point and that view point is knocked down you get the second and if you go beyond that you begin to evaluating things based on physical evidence and logic.

All of these view points are related to age according to the researchers. That is BS but so is a lot of this article.

When you are a child your world should contain lots of TRUTH in big letters. It is six o'clock, mom will be calling me to dinner. Good. It is six o'clock, maybe I get fed, maybe I get tortured, maybe I get ignored, maybe the panda will come to life and eat me. Not good.

When you get older you see that while there may be TRUTH there is also other ways of doing things. Your dinner time may be six but the dinner time of other children may be seven and some may not get dinner at all.

Supposedly the last stage should be people get off work and by the time they get home it is about 5:30, allowing an hour for cooking dinner will be at 6:30.

The stage beyond that, which they do not acknowledge is the idea that there should be a dinner time and if you do not eat eventually you will die. You also need social interaction over food at least occasionally. It is probably one of our oldest human rituals. Tossing it away is undoubtedly unhealthy.

This to them is regression back to childish thinking because it allows room for only one truth. You need to break bread with other people. They get their knickers in a knot about it. It is not based on logic and reason you see, it is based on a deeper level of knowing.

That is pretty much it.

Get it?

Got it.

Good.

Oh and of course there is the mandatory swipe at Trump.

12 posted on 05/13/2023 5:13:38 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Cognitive Bias "trumps" Truth by Consensus

but politics is a game of mind control and uses both to control the impressionable people, (like the author of this article, and especially people under 25 )

18 posted on 05/13/2023 5:43:30 PM PDT by KTM rider (Be Alert Stay Calm Think Clearly Act Decisively )
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