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Mystical · 31-35, M
The idea of open-mind has no limits or boundaries, the point you feel can you be more open-minded tells you that you are at a point where you want to be close minded.
We make decisions based on our biases about things, situations and choices. Our biases decides what would be our approach towards it. With open mind you choose to let go biases.
Please understand open-minded doesn’t mean you would accept the ideas it means you would never put your bias before making a choice. You can be open minded yet choose not to do as asked.
We make decisions based on our biases about things, situations and choices. Our biases decides what would be our approach towards it. With open mind you choose to let go biases.
Please understand open-minded doesn’t mean you would accept the ideas it means you would never put your bias before making a choice. You can be open minded yet choose not to do as asked.
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Mystical · 31-35, M
@Turtlepower I understand your perspective, and the idea of instinctive actions. If you dig deep to understand what happens when you do things instinctively you will find out that our brain makes decisions based on its past biases, and please note these are biases that have been collective biases from generation passed over to every next generation.
If you read the studies about human responses to things instinctively you will find its driven by survival biases created way back
If you read the studies about human responses to things instinctively you will find its driven by survival biases created way back
Turtlepower · 36-40, M
@Mystical that's not bias though. You're literally changing the definition of the word. That's like saying it's bias that I want to eat food or drink water. No, I need to do that to survive. It's not my "perspective". Gazelle see lions and run. That's not bias, that's an instinct to survive. Also, keeping an open mind to every idea is detrimental to society and if practiced by everyone would cripple generational learning. I apologize if this sounds offensive but it feels like your original post was written to make yourself sound more intellectual than you are. The way you talk about bias is trying to say it's a bias that I don't want to touch a hot stove. Which is just improperly using the word
Mystical · 31-35, M
@Turtlepower we are all entitled to believe what we want to, and honestly nothing offensive about having different perspective. What i speak is what i have read through various researches .
I dont intend to appear intellectual, or trying to be one. If you find that way it could be because we are talking in those realms.
I can share multiple research papers done over human brain and how it’s cognitive theory is developed based on biases.
I am trying to change world, i am trying to tell obvious with facts, but rejection of it only tells me about biases we have created abt our approach too. For example lets talk what you said
“I wont touch hot stove” - tell this to your younger self when you didnt have biases. Everyone in kid touched or tried to touch stove when we were kid and we were told by our parents not to do that. Hope this make sense.
We can argue all about it all the time but before hastly you make a decision about what you read please understand the idea being presented. As said in post, keep an open mind to understand your mind
I dont intend to appear intellectual, or trying to be one. If you find that way it could be because we are talking in those realms.
I can share multiple research papers done over human brain and how it’s cognitive theory is developed based on biases.
I am trying to change world, i am trying to tell obvious with facts, but rejection of it only tells me about biases we have created abt our approach too. For example lets talk what you said
“I wont touch hot stove” - tell this to your younger self when you didnt have biases. Everyone in kid touched or tried to touch stove when we were kid and we were told by our parents not to do that. Hope this make sense.
We can argue all about it all the time but before hastly you make a decision about what you read please understand the idea being presented. As said in post, keep an open mind to understand your mind
SomeMichGuy · M
Being open-minded does *not* mean that you ACCEPT "every idea someone presents to you"--that's the definition of veing wishy-washy and having zero mind of one's own
It means that, for those things which are
• ultimately decidable questions which require more information to be decided (e.g., scientific inquiry ["What is the nature of 'dark' matter/'dark' energy?"], etc.), or
• indeterminate questions which are primarily based upon forming opinions based upon what is available and arguing on that basis (e.g., literature, etc., or which political party philosophy is better, etc.)
that you are open to hearing someone's opinions about some topic 'x' which falls under a domain such as these.
Arguing about things which are truly just matters of taste--e.g., one's favorite anything, preferred anything, or other likes & dislikes--is pointless and should be avoided, which is a practical matter having nothing to do with "open-mindedness". (If you love chartreuse and I love fuschia, we are unlikely to convince each other to change our tastes by saying why we like the colors we each like.)
Also, not listening to points of view not based upon facts is another practical way to not waste one's time. If someone has new, actual facts (not rumors, etc.), then that bears scrutiny under the first category. But listening to people talking of a flat Earth, machines which violate laws of thermodynamics, or other twaddle...that's not required under being "open-minded".
Come to the table with facts, references...
It means that, for those things which are
• ultimately decidable questions which require more information to be decided (e.g., scientific inquiry ["What is the nature of 'dark' matter/'dark' energy?"], etc.), or
• indeterminate questions which are primarily based upon forming opinions based upon what is available and arguing on that basis (e.g., literature, etc., or which political party philosophy is better, etc.)
that you are open to hearing someone's opinions about some topic 'x' which falls under a domain such as these.
Arguing about things which are truly just matters of taste--e.g., one's favorite anything, preferred anything, or other likes & dislikes--is pointless and should be avoided, which is a practical matter having nothing to do with "open-mindedness". (If you love chartreuse and I love fuschia, we are unlikely to convince each other to change our tastes by saying why we like the colors we each like.)
Also, not listening to points of view not based upon facts is another practical way to not waste one's time. If someone has new, actual facts (not rumors, etc.), then that bears scrutiny under the first category. But listening to people talking of a flat Earth, machines which violate laws of thermodynamics, or other twaddle...that's not required under being "open-minded".
Come to the table with facts, references...
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AlchemyFox · 36-40, F
@MartinTheFirst honestly fuck ALL the buzzwords
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ElRengo · 70-79, M
To be open minded means IMO to consider other viewpoints other than yours in such a way that there is a not nul space for change or enrich your previous opinion.
It don´t entail anyhow to necessary end in agreement and neither to validate that truthness mainly deppends on (each one´s) thoughts all of them equally right.
It don´t entail anyhow to necessary end in agreement and neither to validate that truthness mainly deppends on (each one´s) thoughts all of them equally right.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
One can not do that. We had a prime minister in Canada of whom it was said that his highest priority was the issue raised by the last person to talk to him. He didn't survive the next election. There are truths and facts that simply do not change regardless of what anyone would have you to believe.
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Your question keeps popping up, so here it is. Open-minded does have a limit, but the only limit it has is the limit of your own imagination. 🙂 🤔
DeluxedEdition · 26-30, F
i only accept what makes sense to me. I will listen to anything but what I absorb is a different story
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Menetics · 26-30, F
@MalteseFalconPunch Being open to ideas that other people present to you.
Some people accuse you of not being open-minded if you don’t have the same ideology as them. I don’t think people who force their ideology on others are open-minded. One can be open-minded without having to agree with you.
Some people accuse you of not being open-minded if you don’t have the same ideology as them. I don’t think people who force their ideology on others are open-minded. One can be open-minded without having to agree with you.
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ronisme1 · 61-69, M
I am very open minded but yes, there is a limit
masterofyou · 70-79, M
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