I Have Random Thoughts

To be curious means to somehow ignore the tendency and sometimes urge to generalize. Generalizations may be practical and that may be why we have evolved to gravitate towards them but every time you make a case or statement more general you lose some of its fit to reality. Details make up the universe even though generalizations may guide us through it.

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Onddruid

Aido: you mean generally you shouldn't generalize? :P

And yes, I think my position on the realness of reality is that I believe there is something out there that is real and I know there is me that is real but my perception is a very narrow window into that reality and what I see in that window is mostly a reflection of what is in here with me.

So in that case the people that generalize too much tend to choose to see the reflection rather than the things that lurk out there in the dark.

But it doesn't really mean just because I am looking really hard as those dark and blurry shapes that I see them more clearly, if anything it just means I feel less sure about whether what I see is real or just part of that wily reflection. And that I spend an unhealthy amount of time thinking about that ;)