Does being open-minded has its limit?
How open-minded one can be? Would you accept every idea someone presents to you?
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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.
Turtlepower · 36-40, M
@Mystical I mean there are good times to be close minded and it didn't have to be a bias. For instance, most people believe that murdering someone is wrong, but someone tries to convince you it's good to murder random people to prevent over population. Pretty fair to abruptly end that conversation without keeping an "open mind". I wouldn't call that falling victim to your personal bias.
Mystical · 31-35, M
@Turtlepower yes your exmaple is best way to understand biases. Most people believe that murder is wrong and yes it is bias, personal as well as social.
What happens in wat then? Now the soldiers kill people to save land, at this stage the bias is acts done for greater good is ok.
Another very common related example was we in society has bias towards gays. But didnt we got over it with open minded perspective. Few people where able to let us drop our biases.
You will be surprised to notice how much biases we carry. Funny even Artificial intelligence work on biases
What happens in wat then? Now the soldiers kill people to save land, at this stage the bias is acts done for greater good is ok.
Another very common related example was we in society has bias towards gays. But didnt we got over it with open minded perspective. Few people where able to let us drop our biases.
You will be surprised to notice how much biases we carry. Funny even Artificial intelligence work on biases
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