Is Killing the Same as Murder? (Updated-V2)
To murder is to kill, but to kill is not necessarily to murder. The same direction is applied with force and violence: violence is force but force is not necessarily violence, as my previous post...
View ArticleCogs in the Machine – Willing Slaves to Feed the Golem (Updated-V2)
To survive, we need to engage in economic survivability of some kind. Nothing is free, we have to provide for ourselves. But does that mean we need to have coercive systems in place that force us to...
View ArticleAttentional Bias – Cognitive Biases (Pt.3)
Attentional bias is when we focus our attention on one specific thing. Cognitively, this is when we focus on one or two possible outcomes instead of seeing more options available. Physically it’s to...
View ArticleDemocracy – Power to … What People?
We can use words to represent and define reality. Reality comes first, then words to describe it. i.e. we live a way of life where we have a government, and we describe it with words. We can also use...
View ArticleInfluence, Distraction and Complexity in the Age of Information
Simply by speaking we influence others, and can even manipulate them. Tell others what they want to hear, true or false, and you will be able to influence them more. Tell them things they don’t want to...
View ArticleLearn to Let Go. Objective Detachment – Psychology (Pt.2)
Identification and Attachment Attachment blinds us to reality. Attachment is the root of suffering. Detachment is freedom. Attachment applies on many levels of life because its intricately rooted into...
View ArticleAvailability heuristic – Cognitive Biases (Pt.4)
The availability heuristic works like it sounds: whatever is most available is most easily used to make judgments and come to decisions. Judgments are based on memory recall. Recent information is...
View ArticleAnthropomorphism – Cognitive Biases (Pt.5)
Anthropomorphism and personification is taking qualities, aspects, characteristics, properties and attributes of human consciousness (thoughts, emotions, intentions, behavior) or physical forms (body,...
View ArticlePerceptual Distractions (Updated V2)
Perceptual distractions are all the peripheral aspects of life that keep us from facing ourselves in the mirror, our shadow, the darkness within us, and getting to the heart of the darkness in life....
View ArticleAutomation bias – Cognitive Biases (Pt.6)
Automation bias is an over-reliance on automated aids and decision support systems. Trust and complacency develops. Erroneous automated information is favored even when accurate contradictory...
View ArticleBackfire Effect – Cognitive Biases (Pt.7)
The backfire effect is the tendency to reject evidence, facts or information that goes against the beliefs we are attached to. Normally we tend to give ourselves and others more credit, that our...
View ArticleBe a Phoenix
The phoenix is a mythical bird that is associated with magic and alchemy, and higher knowledge and life through the philosopher’s stone. The symbolic mythology generally goes along the storyline of...
View ArticleBandwagon Effect – Cognitive Biases (Pt.8)
The bandwagon effect represents the phenomena of the increasing adoption of beliefs, ideas, fads, trends, fashions, styles, and behaviors as more people accept it. The more something becomes...
View ArticleLogic Comic – Anecdotal Fallacy
The anecdotal fallacy is to use a particular personal or isolated example to attempt to prove a generalized universal conclusion. The anecdotal fallacy is also known as misleading vividness. What is...
View ArticleAppeal to Possibility – Logic Comic (Pt.2)
Something might happen, possibly happen, or even be likely or probable to happen, but that doesn’t mean it will happen. When we assume something will inevitably happen because it could happen, we are...
View ArticleHow is the Technological World Affecting Our Brains?
We live in an ever increasing technological world. In the past 50 years things have changed more rapidly for technological development than in the previous 100 years before that. How much has all of...
View ArticleLet someone else fix it, I just want to enjoy life and have fun…
Many of us recognize the world is not right. Many people go through life with this unconscious or subconscious sense of something being off with society and the way things are. Unfortunately, many of...
View ArticleBase Rate Neglect – Cognitive Biases (Pt.9)
Base rate neglect is the tendency to ignore base general information, in favor of specific (new, novel, attention grabbing) information. The base rate neglect is also known as the base rate fallacy....
View ArticleDo we stand in truth together, or stand alone?
Have you ever had something happen where you needed support for being right? Maybe something happens in the family, maybe with friends, or at work. You are in the right. You know it. Others know it....
View ArticleWhat is the Blockchain, Blockchain 2.0, and Steemit? Building the Future!
This topic is likely understood by many people on Steemit. But some people may not yet, and may want to understand the basics. Here is what I have learned as a blockchain noob in my Steemit journey....
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