2021.10.18 18:17
Feel first, think second: is our brain really cut out for the modern world?
https://bigthink.com/videos/rational-thinking/
2021.10.18 18:32
2021.10.18 19:59
Nowadays people refuses to be rational. They belong to one side or
another. Whatever my side claims to be to be right, one does not
think twice and follow it. People do not care about facts. It is
a ball game without referee. The only bright spot is that there are
more people who are rational than irrational, but the difference
is dangerously small.
2021.10.19 08:13
"There may be one way being rational but many ways being irrational."
This argument or the need to be rational, I felt, is very timely and pertinent
for the elderly without dementia for the sake of their own survival as well.
I used to reassure my old patients by saying that you will do alright
as long as you have a good brain, which I think you do.
Now I'm finding myself in the same situation my patients used to be in.
Physicians are to be heirs to their patients.
And "That's the way it is."
I wholeheartedly agree with these experts in that
our brain is not fit for 21st century so that we humans need
to train our brains from outsider's perspective
to adapt to this complicated, technologically advanced world
which is beyond our ability to feel and think of our ways for survival
as that was the way in the primitive cave living.
As they pointed out, there may be only one way for survival but
numerous ways to destruction as in the case of the climate change.