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SELF DECEPTION OR NOT SELF DECEPTION IN TRANSCENDENCE?

My fiend Lee C Waaks tries to remind me regularly the people do not engage in self deception so much as cognitive bias. I hold the position that our genes cause us to possess different intensities of cognitive bias, such that we tend to construct edifices of falsehood to defend our reproductive strategies. The reason we do this is that we must act optimistically in favor of our strategies even if those strategies are difficult or next to impossible. as such our genes are capable of deceiving that part of us that we call self awareness or ‘self’. And we must struggle very hard at times to learn tools of truth if truth is our ambition. This is because truth is usually more useful than our genes evolved to accommodate. And that is because our ability to discern truth is relatively recent in our developmental history.

perception->memory->intuition->presentation->reason.

<—————un-aware———-.-><——–aware————>

<—————gene-driven———><–awareness driven–>

…………….”The Elephant”………..|……….The Rider………..

SO IS THIS “SELF”?

<——————————–Self———————————->

OR IS THIS “SELF”

<————–Not-Self—————><———–Self————>

Because in the former we are capable of self deception, while in the latter we are not capable of self deception, so much as struggling either in favor of or against bias-reinforcement.

GENE MACHINES

I think that we are still half animal and have not yet transcended into fully human. because our genes do bias us.

One of the competing theories I’m working with is that we function as a collective at all times, and that our diversity of abilities allows us both specialize in an intertemporal division of perception, cognition, knowledge, labor, and advocacy, and to adapt to the changing universe around us. And that our cognitive biases are a useful means of specialization.

If this is true then we need only now how we err, not know the truth, since the truth so to speak is a product of social interaction assuming we can obtain truthfulness (the best information possible) from others.

So we have two possible axis of evolution: equality or specialization. And given the difference between the genders and the difference in our abilities I am rapidly converting from the individual to the social.