Intro
- For some time I have been writing about this irrational world so I guess I should tie it all together in a new blog.
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So much Irrationality
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- Bonkers, Bollocks, BS, Bull, Tosh, Bunkum - there's so much of it around : Religion, TV, romanticismetc
Quote : - Very few (if any) people have a full rational worked out for everything they do and believe.
The vast majority at least take short-cuts by making a few assumptions and simple preference selections. After that they may or may not try to work out a logical basis for their decisions.
| So much Noise
- Have you ever noticed that when you try to get to the bottom of a subject how difficult it is . There is so much noise on the internet forums are jammed with posters putting the same old point or making stupid comments etc.
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- you can't trust anything in the papers
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Nature of The beast : that media distorts rather than gets to the truth
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- Noise on the net TV etc
A Rational person in a Irrational World
- Understanding life is like swimming in jam
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Unlearning Contaminated Info
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- Apart from in school science lessons info rarely comes in a pure form, rather it comes inside stories which include emotion and with other info which may turn out to be false. There is always a need to unpack the istory to get to the raw info. Do we need to take into account the context I.e. From a Daily Mail Article or direct from your scientist friend.
- I know this from teaching English; some students are worse than beginners. They have learnt to do something the wrong way so first you have to get them to unlearn this habit, before you can teach the correct way. One may see an emotional story banged in again and again by newspapers so form a picture in ones mind. But 10 years later in a calmer more objective time understand the picture in a completely different way and realise your initial point of view was wrong. Whereas if your mind had been less contaminated, then you would have reached the truth quicker.
- It would be good if their was an information service which supplies uncontaminated information - actually Wikipedia with it's policy of NPV is aiming for this I suppose. The BBC although aiming for impartiality seves a lot of contaminated info through it's choice of agenda, lifting stories from other media, emotional input etc It's the nature of TV, radio in comparison to encyclopedic wrting.
Rather than being productive reading newspapers leaves more muddled than before, unlless one has imense skill in filtering bad info from good.
| - Newspapers are distorted via PR agencies.
When 4 ear old Maddy McCann disappeared her face was on the frontpages da after day cor her middle class McCann family had hired PR agences. Much less fuss is made about other disappeared children. Feeding frenzy effect.
| The Need To Believe
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- One thing is that many people so desperately want to believe stuff
- They feel comfortable to in a group with other people and when you don't support that idea they don't like it. e.g. - they are hostile to me cos I question that Climate Change Catastrophe is coming
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Bollocks, bull, BS From commercialism to hippy BS there is so much falseness..
I like many things music, books etc, others are not to my taste , but the vast majority of stuff is bullshit
- I like many things with imagination, but I don't like things which aren't reality being made out to be real like many mens accounts of their sex life.
- I'm a bloody good liar, but actually I almost never lie I tell the truth all the time, but I think I must be a rarity.
| The stories
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- Rational 1
grey data i.e. material sourced from newspaper reports and activists is allowed to be included in the official IPCC reports
Journalists get things wrong e.g Telegraph reporting on coming medium show when in fact it's already been on have to undo the untruths and bad facts of newspapers first
Get it right first time.
Internet takes longer cos
1. Websites often down or technical prob
2. I can check details deeper so I do
Some facts complicated
written by An Infinite Monkey (a stewgreen identity)
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