Adventures in Thought Space

    Bishko once said that “It’s often hard to show someone they’re wrong about one thing when they’re wrong about almost everything else.”   What’s wrong with common learning, thinking, and wisdom isn’t so much incorrectness--but their nonexistence. Whatever tangibility they possess amounts to little more than questionably consistent, questionably correct beliefs people are told to have. Perhaps worse, the absence of an established epistemology implicitly discourages it. If its advocates weren’t offended by the following, it would be evidence against extralogical reasoning’s correctness.   Common life-related learning doesn’t teach thinking, decision-making, and mental health managerial methods (a philosophy of judgment); it doesn’t teach what knowledge, understanding, proficiency, and wisdom are and how they fit together (a philosophy of learning); it doesn’t define what a psychology is in any meaningful and unambiguous way and how it fits in with your i...

  Few believe in the cognitive system—which is unfortunate because it’s the root of human bias. Few understand that beliefs and their primitive equivalents are effectively a person’s psychology, making their management one in the same. Understanding bias and susceptibility to wrongness is the most important aspect of judgment. This talk is the third lecture and introduces the cognitive system and its role in judgment and reasoning.  

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.