Adventures in Thought Space

If raw intellect’s role in wisdom and judgment isn’t overestimated, it’s at least misunderstood. Some problems arise because few distinguish between them and other intellectual attributes, such as judgment and competence. Many biases are universal to thinking apparatuses, even if engineered, and remain unknown. This is the second talk in the lecture series and explains the origins of these issues, how they impair judgment, and what can be done to combat them.      

  ER’s philosophy of judgment is the true epistemic core of its philosophy. What role does raw intellect play in judgment? People extol intelligence and learning, but how do they relate to judgment—and not? This will be addressed in the first segment.

  What is wisdom? Why is it necessary? What sub-philosophies must one have?   These are questions extralogical reasoning has pondered throughout its development. This is the first of several lectures (and their sub-segments) that will be released over the coming months. This video introduces ER as an epistemic-based philosophy and the lecture series itself.

This post is to test how to introduce and embed a video in a blog post. The picture below is linked to the video; click on it to watch.  The video is an introduction to the blog with an interview of Neal Murphy, the author. Enjoy.

  Beliefs and their primitive equivalents are components of a thinking apparatus’s models/perceptions of All reality —internal and external combined. Beliefs are the units of “knowledge” created to direct decision-making in evolutionary environments. This includes what are perceived as facts. Beliefs exist in many forms: conscious, unconscious, and transitory , representing emotions and gut reactions—among others.   In the extralogical reasoning model, All reality is secondarily its parts and primarily the self-organizing system that’s unpredictably different and more powerful than the sum of the parts it emerges from. A person is their psychology, and if you model beliefs this way, you can model a psychology as their belief network or All reality. This is a Complex network, subject to the laws of Complex systems theory (Knowledge of Complexity not required for this post; see article on Complexity if you want to learn more).   Most would agree that intelligence is an imp...

  In the last conceit, I introduced Unwrongness , intelligent skepticism, and belief management as the basis for practical reasoning, life learning, and healthy living. Extralogical reasoning (ER) asserts that wisdom that is “path-infinite”: There are infinite paths that lead to the same wisdom. But path-infinite isn’t path-independent, for infinite doesn’t mean any . Among the paths that can be ruled out are those following logical progressions. Clarity and logical progressions are the domain of hindsight. The POL is dynamic, and the path to viable solutions is chaotic, circular, and lonely.   A chaotic and lonely path are not only inevitable, but necessary. Although there may be infinite hypothetical sources of help , enlightenment is something one must discover for themselves. The last conceit defined a psychology as secondarily a cognitive, emotional, and intellectual systems and predominately the self-organizing system that’s unpredictably different and more powerfu...