Mar 22, 2020, 8:43 PM
I spent years on the analytic, logical, operational, and empirical to climb through the ladder of disciplines one ring at a time, and finally reach the end – religion and aesthetics. And the conversation followed a predictable trajectory. An indifferent “Huh?” to “Yes, yes” enthusiastic engagement. Everyone wanted me to work on philosophy, secular theology, and religion BEFORE I constructed the scaffolding underneath it – so that I wasn’t hanging on priors – just the truth. … Now watch as everyone else reverts to prior despite all the work. You know why? No one, or almost no one, ever learns, adapts, changes, evolves. We want power over our mind, our emotions, our environment, and others. And we want it on our terms. And we want the grammar our brain wants. We want any excuse to confirm our priors. Because the cost of cognitive reconstruction is too high. Can you help it? No. You will gain the ability to speak about your bias in more precise terms. You will adopt the parts of P that solve problems for you – explanatory power or justification of priors. You will imitate those who you can benefit from. And those of us for whom truth is enough, were destined to be here all along. We just know how to speak the truth now in the language of truth: the laws of nature, the natural law, and the law of evolution and transcendence.
Intuition is a jealous elephant.
( Our consciousness is not just a rider on the elephant of our intuition, on the landscape of our genes. The elephant is not just undisciplined. it jealously guards its independence from our consciousness. )