Oh I don’t expect to be *un*biased. But I hope to know mine, as many as I can.
I’m striving for ‘authentic stance’, self-aware. Know what I stand for and why I do and why I don’t stand for the other stuff. If that ends up being less biased that’d be awesome but if it’s super-biased, well, that’s fine too as long as I know it.
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I used to think that but one bias replaces another. Even to say “all biases are equally valid” is a bias. So, there’s no real “zero resting point” of no bias that I can see. Maybe there is but I can’t find it, although a lot of people claim to have it.
I think knowing your biases is equivalent to knowing what you consider true and stable enough.
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Same for me. I go as far as I can go and then stop. When I stop, I look around and relax and notice stuff. Sometimes I can see myself better or other things better but the pressure’s off.
The metaphor I try to remember in those frustrations-of-limitations, I remember the size of my mouth.
You can only fit in your mouth stuff that you can then chew. It has dimensions, limits.
Then there’s limits of your digestive system., although those are more easily overcome than the mouth size problem.
It was kind of a revelation: the bandwidth of my mouth. I even sometimes cut my pizza so that the pieces are the right size to fit. It’s a more pleasant eating experience because I’m working to my fullest without feeling the despair of limitations of which all things have, save the entirety of spacetime/M-brane/God/whatever.
You can always go smaller or bigger but capturing everything at once isn’t possible, so why not shoot for “right size”.
[of course, mouth is also a metaphor for how much information you can take in at a time and chew, and the digestive system is how much knowledge you can hold]…
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I use boredom for that. Hunger and other discomforts also works. I figure if I’m bored, that means I’ve done all I can do for now, so it’s time to go do something else. Change lanes.
I like the lane changing metaphor you’re using because you’re not actually stopping, just continuing in a different lane for now.
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Sometimes it’s not boredom that reminds me to stop and change lanes. Sometimes it’s looking around and realizing I’m lost, sometimes even in wonder and amazement, but I begin losing myself.
That’s what this post is referring to : losing yourself sometimes within yourself.
After I wrote this, I got up and made a sandwich. Lane changing.
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If it’s true that we’re basically state machines, you wake up continuing the last thought you had when you were awake last. I think it’s true. I like filling my brain with complicated interesting things before I go to sleep. When I wake up, I always have a fascinating dream and a new idea that I didn’t have before. It’s fun.
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metaphors
I think they’re to key to all of our learning [a ‘this is nearly entirely like that – but here’s how they’re not like each other”] but if we forget the second part of it, we can be misled. But as long as we remember the 2nd part it’s handy that our brains work that way.
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