Adventures in Thought Space

Although there's a brief conclusion at the end, the following is a collection of self-contained commentaries on causation, NOT an actual essay.  The Need For "Scientific Holistic Thinking" The primary law of this Universe is the law of causality, which states that for every effect, there’s at least one cause that precedes it. But there is nothing inherent to the law that says that causality must be simple, tangible, or understandable to humans. Unfortunately, people are programmed to believe exactly the opposite. Although the term has undergone many iterations throughout the extralogical reasoning literature, extralogical reasoning now calls this the  causation bias , the natural human tendency to be too quick to assume that the relationship between cause and effect will be ascertainable and satisfying.    The factors/variables relevant to causation are greater, less tangible and articulable, and more interactive than most people think. Organization and complex ...

Intellectuals are so plagued by unwisdom three seven-to-ten-page posts didn’t afford me ample opportunity to fully explain its origins. This is the first sequel to the intro, especially Part Two: “ Knowledge (alone) isn’t Power. ” It might require an additional one. Previously, I discussed the ills of knowledge idolatry and the intellectual debilitations that accompany excessive schooling. This essay will further expound the deleterious effects of the mindsets encouraged by university education. If people pursue school and general learning optimally, they can still get a great net gain from higher education, but that’s a much bigger IF than most think. People’s unwitting insistence on believing in guarantees, including guaranteed benefits, could make IF one of the most underappreciated words in the English language. As stated in the intro, it’s impossible to cultivate a type of learning without cultivating a type of MINDSET. Because of the powerful psychological components of thinking ...