What is the difference between changing your presumption and changing your mind?
I might change my mind and order the Osso Bucco instead of the Cioppino. I might change my presumption that all people are evil and instead presume that they are simple semi-domesticated animals doing their best and doing it often badly.
So we change our understanding (presumption) vs change our preference (choice). And we get into a problem when we don’t know the difference.
Why? Neural Economy. The less able, the less trained, the less experienced, the less skilled, the more uncertain the world, and the more we seek for rigid anchors amidst the waves of events we wade through.
Simple people set anchors of insecurity to lessen the burden of continuous interpretation and adaptation to the effects of reality upon them. Complex people merely set a course and comfortably adapt as they navigate reality.
Part of determining which you are is making the choice to pay the cost or not, of developing the agency to self-regulate the kaleidic uncertainty of existential reality in large populations under continuous change.
Cheers
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
The Science of Cooperation
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Source date (UTC): 2023-08-30 15:52:46 UTC
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