I suggest everyone research Fristonâs Free Energy Principle then youâll see a common thread between most human irrationality.
Basically the whole brain even down to individual neurons view updating predictive beliefs as energy intensive and itâs life mission is to reduce that energy.
This leaves a few strategies:
1: Create a simple and sophisticated enough mental framework that will turn out right in most cases. âWhat goes up must go downâ is a useful belief that is rarely contradicted.
2: Change the world to align with your beliefs. âHumanity is meant to care for natureâ then you save an animal to prove your belief.
3: Create an unfalsifiable belief. âGod has a planâ well no one can disprove this so this belief never needs updating.
or 4: Shelter yourself from evidence through isolation, exlusive communities, habitual lying, ect. âImmigrants are ruining the economyâ well if you lead a life that rarely engages with immigrants like humans then you can count the rare instances as exceptions to the rule and never update this belief.
Iâm sure there are more but the Free Energy
Principle explains a lot of behavior. Like why do people get addicted to games of chance? Because they know winning is possible and they want to predict it, but you canât predict true randomness so the free energy cannot be reduced. Also why we cling to anything that gives the illusion of reducing uncertainty, like a gambler âhaving a systemâ or a football fan having lucky charms.
Itâs like saying that you canât reason someone out of a belief or opinion that they didnât reason themselves into. You canât apply reason to subconscious processes and expect them to change in response. Itâs been a valuable lesson for me to not try and quash my emotions with logic but to give them space to exist and process.
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I suggest everyone research Fristonâs Free Energy Principle then youâll see a common thread between most human irrationality.
Basically the whole brain even down to individual neurons view updating predictive beliefs as energy intensive and itâs life mission is to reduce that energy.
This leaves a few strategies:
1: Create a simple and sophisticated enough mental framework that will turn out right in most cases. âWhat goes up must go downâ is a useful belief that is rarely contradicted.
2: Change the world to align with your beliefs. âHumanity is meant to care for natureâ then you save an animal to prove your belief.
3: Create an unfalsifiable belief. âGod has a planâ well no one can disprove this so this belief never needs updating.
or 4: Shelter yourself from evidence through isolation, exlusive communities, habitual lying, ect. âImmigrants are ruining the economyâ well if you lead a life that rarely engages with immigrants like humans then you can count the rare instances as exceptions to the rule and never update this belief.
Iâm sure there are more but the Free Energy
Principle explains a lot of behavior. Like why do people get addicted to games of chance? Because they know winning is possible and they want to predict it, but you canât predict true randomness so the free energy cannot be reduced. Also why we cling to anything that gives the illusion of reducing uncertainty, like a gambler âhaving a systemâ or a football fan having lucky charms.
Itâs like saying that you canât reason someone out of a belief or opinion that they didnât reason themselves into. You canât apply reason to subconscious processes and expect them to change in response. Itâs been a valuable lesson for me to not try and quash my emotions with logic but to give them space to exist and process.
Not meat.
Yeah isnât it more like wrinkly fat?
Fat is animal meat bud.
animal bud is fat, meat.
flesh flesh flesh flesh, flesh.
I⌠I think itâs supposed to be a little joke. I think. Accuracy is not a priority, then.
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