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What Are Beliefs? (3.5 pages)

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    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 intel...
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Neal Puzzle of Life, a Mini Book: The Second Conceit

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  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...
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Neal's Puzzle of Life, A Mini-book: The First Conceit: Pragmatic Unwrongness (25 pages)

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    The following is the first of three “conceits,” or personal conceptualizations, of Neal’s puzzle of life that collect to a single mini-book. It begins with a few page intro, followed by the first (twenty-page) conceit. The others are forthcoming.   Intro to the Puzzle of Life    Only in hindsight do analyses follow logical progressions. In real time, the answers often arrive before being explicitly asked. Partly due to finite intelligence, partly by design, the unconscious has limited communicative capacity, hoarding a treasure trove of questions and answers.   If one’s imagination isn’t restricted to readily available frames of reference--and they can comprehend the nuances between how things are and how they could or should be--it adds variables to an already complex puzzle. True free thinkers aren’t just inclined to doubt the answers to the popular questions; they seek new questions. But questions don’t guarantee answers, and seeking ...
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