Adventures in Thought Space

  There’s no such thing as maturity, only varying degrees of immaturity.    Progress doesn’t always lead to competence or cure, and immaturity is never shed, only lessened and managed. Many attribute their personal development to life learning when, in reality, they mostly get older and have an emotional system less poorly suited for judgment (more on this in a bit). It’s naïve to think young people simply lack knowledge and that growing older necessarily means growing wiser. Intelligence and learning don’t guarantee wisdom; judgment isn’t purely intellectual; and exposure to the lessons doesn’t guarantee they’re learned. And these are amongst the most important lessons. Since they’re rarely learned, wisdom comes in part from realizing why it DOESN’T come with age.      In the post  The Epistemology of Irrationality , I examined the dynamics of irrationality as a means of studying RATIONALITY. Similarly, to understand maturity--or “non-immaturity,...

Nature is governed by complexity theory; biospheres follow the laws of Nature; and evolution is their self-organized change. Thus, a comprehensive study of Complexity and general evolution is almost one in the same (Complexity and complex systems will be explained) .  The   articles   on Complexity   and especially popular environmentalism are effectively treatments on evolution, but they’re presented differently and focus less on specific traits.        All novelties have origins in lesser things, and rarely do they emerge from their roots without bringing something from whence they came. When the human thinking organ rose from the ruthless chaos of the Evolutionary Experiment, it remained bound by the same chains as its prototypes.    Human beings might be an evolutionary novelty, but they are not aliens from Earth; they hail from the same taxonomic tree as Earth’s other lifeforms, the same tree that has propagated upwards and ou...

The following is dedicated to my bestie, Bex, for that very fact as well as catalyzing some of the thinking that went into this article.      A lot can be learned from receiving poor advisement. In fact, much of extralogical reasoning comes from the lessons I learned from my advisors’ mistakes. Much of what remains comes from the advisees', including myself.    Most, if not all, the misconceptions discussed herein are “unidentified”: They aren’t necessarily things people truly believe, but enough of their unconscious’ do to impair their thinking. As ER often says, owing to a subconscious-dominate thinking organ, having a fully consistent belief set is a total impossibility, and whatever approximation can be realized never is. Few appreciate how much unidentified beliefs can wreak havoc on someone’s thinking.    Most advisory mistakes and misconceptions relate to general thinking and decision-making, which is covered in the rest of ER (see summary ER in...