 pokkets says: Knowing where I can be biased, can help me find mistakes when I make them. It can also help me spot mistakes before I make them. It's a big list but it helps to be able to clear a few out, by asking for other opinions, and compare both the similarities, and the differences Knowing where I can be biased, can help me find mistakes when I make them. It can also help me spot mistakes before I make them...but do not have a history of repeating our errors. Great clip! Cognitive bias isn't that just conditioning ie:whatever limits our thoughts It's an unconscious overarching bias that leads some people to spend their lives in a conceptual universe. Reasoning is great but it isn't the whole story. Ideas, rational power and so on are essential ingredients of what makes us human, but they are not sufficient to develop some important human urges - such as the search for reality. I read that attention is where reality is ie: paying attention Attention can be a hard thing to specify. If we walk into a room our attention is focused on a much more limited view than we believe. Our brain fills a lot of gaps. Ever been looking for something, having trouble, and then finding it under your nose. Often we are looking where we expect it to be, not where it is. Like a word that can't be remembered, which comes to us as soon as we stop trying so hard to remember it. Bias can be the result of having one set of eye's. We can never see something from all sides. Attention is drawn to what interests us. The reason so many politicians, and Magicians are successful. (Just look over there!) The short attention span is also factor. We may be bia... |
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