There is a model of how the mind thinks. \u00a0I don’t know the source of this idea but I read about it occasionally.\u00a0 It says that the mind thinks with models, and without a model, the mind cannot think, it can only memorize data.\u00a0 As it collects data, it looks for patterns and relationships so it can form a model to start thinking\u00a0with the memorized data, explaining things and making predictions, or “guesstimates”.<\/p>\n
To illustrate, imagine a child trying to learn how to add.\u00a0 He asks his father, what does one plus one equal?\u00a0 His father says “2” and the son asks, “why”.\u00a0 His father grabs a rock and says, here’s 1 rock.\u00a0 Then he grabs another rock and says, this is also 1 rock.\u00a0 Now I put this one rock together with this other one rock, and I have 2 rocks.\u00a0 So you see that 1+1=2?\u00a0 Good!\u00a0 Now son, what if I added 2 rocks to 2 more rocks?\u00a0 What do you think 2+2 would equal?\u00a0 This father is teaching his son addition by giving him a model so he can think for himself.<\/p>\n
Imagine another child, and a father who uses the “authority argument”, as explained in Post 2.\u00a0 When the child asks, “Why”, the father says, “It just is.”\u00a0 The boy continues asking “But why?”, and the father loses patience and says angrily,\u00a0“Because I said so!”\u00a0 This child did not learn a model of math to think with.\u00a0\u00a0He knows that 1+1 =2, he memorized that, but he won’t know what 2+2 equals until an authority, perhaps a teacher, tells\u00a0him.\u00a0 If he did learn a model about math, it was an incorrect model- that he doesn’t understand math so he has to trust others on the subject.<\/p>\n
This lack of models to think with, or incorrect models, may be why politics is so confusing and controversial.\u00a0 We are constantly given the authority argument on issues, instead of an explanation so we can understand issues for ourselves and come to an agreement.<\/p>\n
Remember from Post 1, the truth is true for everyone and resonates in the mind.\u00a0 So once the truth is understood (remembered, or realized) by everyone, then everyone will agree.\u00a0 Wouldn’t that be nice?\u00a0 A world without argument and conflict, only discussion and cooperation.<\/p>\n
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