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SK7000 said: 1: "difference between having a preference for an opinion, and having blind faith in the validity of an opinion"
1: I meant blind faith with minimal changes
SK7000 said: Bias: As we live we come across questions and experiences. We use our understanding to assign answers through the experiences. We believe we made the best effort to answer these questions truthfully, and thus the answers we reached are more likely to be right than wrong.
Let me try and understand this as well as I can by means of an example to help illustrate how I perceive this statement. Example "Some person" has been very happy with life at several points in time feeling truly ecstatic with the world around him/her. This I would classify as an experience. This experience will then be part of him/her and be used to help him/her answer questions about being happy in life. Right?
Explanation required on "best effort" I have no idea what you meant with believing we made a best effort yet it seems to fit your idea of perfection which could be related. Minimizing mistakes and everything no? From my point of view I just look at "what went wrong this time" and try to get a max learning value from that. So I can not readily accept your idea of best effort being of such relevance in experience vs questions (fully processed input VS new input).
SK7000 said: The key here that separates the closed-minded from the open-minded is how strongly you attach yourself to "being sure of being right."
I don't see how being accurate about something requires being sure of it. Explanation of statement I doubt myself more than most people and I can guarantee you (the irony!, the hypocrisy! xD) that most of the things I say I continously doubt even after having them proven to be accurate. I always keep waiting for some other source to pop up or some new idea coming around going: "Hey! You're wrong because...!" Bias
I used the following definition of Bias for myself. Being of an opinion or view about something based on non-rationale/non-logic such as the awfuly common mistake of thinking that ones experience is more accurate than others. I guess this is somewhat too close to being "near-sighted" as not all options are considered. Maybe that is a better definition. Not looking at the whole picture = bias. Or would that be cutting off too much?
I like how you talked about my views and their buddhistic nature. I would be a lousy buddhist since I'd find myself to be too constrained believing in something again. I'd rather just see it as a point of view.
You don't strike me as the observer type. I wonder what to do with that information :/
Mnessie
almost 12 years agoLet me try and understand this as well as I can by means of an example to help illustrate how I perceive this statement. Example "Some person" has been very happy with life at several points in time feeling truly ecstatic with the world around him/her. This I would classify as an experience. This experience will then be part of him/her and be used to help him/her answer questions about being happy in life. Right?
Explanation required on "best effort" I have no idea what you meant with believing we made a best effort yet it seems to fit your idea of perfection which could be related. Minimizing mistakes and everything no? From my point of view I just look at "what went wrong this time" and try to get a max learning value from that. So I can not readily accept your idea of best effort being of such relevance in experience vs questions (fully processed input VS new input).
I don't see how being accurate about something requires being sure of it. Explanation of statement I doubt myself more than most people and I can guarantee you (the irony!, the hypocrisy! xD) that most of the things I say I continously doubt even after having them proven to be accurate. I always keep waiting for some other source to pop up or some new idea coming around going: "Hey! You're wrong because...!"
Bias
I used the following definition of Bias for myself. Being of an opinion or view about something based on non-rationale/non-logic such as the awfuly common mistake of thinking that ones experience is more accurate than others. I guess this is somewhat too close to being "near-sighted" as not all options are considered. Maybe that is a better definition. Not looking at the whole picture = bias. Or would that be cutting off too much?
I like how you talked about my views and their buddhistic nature. I would be a lousy buddhist since I'd find myself to be too constrained believing in something again. I'd rather just see it as a point of view.
You don't strike me as the observer type. I wonder what to do with that information :/