Sunday, August 31, 2014

Logic, belief

Arguments in a blatany fallacious format are pretty sure fire to trigger that in me though. Before even thinking about and spotting a fallacy, my brain automatically and instinctive picks up on the fallacy based upon how it perceived the argument. It's like having a sixth sense for logical fallacy. I perceive there's a fallacy first and instantaneously, then I need to think about it and pinpoint it's location. An explosion occurs causing my body to get a jolt, and then I notice it came from the northwest. I still think that instinctive, immediate response to a factual contradiction or logic contradiction is the cause of humor. It's a brain tickle of sorts. Humans can't know facts outside our own minds so really it's more so a contradicted in what is believed to be fact; thus, the things that either contradict what we believe will either make a person laugh or angry depending on how important the belief is to them.

The reason I keep bringing up this concept of what is "logically possible" vs what is physically possible is because the implications are huge. The laws of physics are only abolsute laws so long as no result of repeated experiments dispproves them. This extends to all commonly known and held facts about our world and universe. Facts are only facts because they've always been observed to be true so far; They're dependent on observation. If one day something that contradicts a fact is observed, it's no longer a fact; In science, it's no longer a law. The conclusion of this, is that there is basically no way to know that anything outside of the human mind is true and exists; so, people, can only believe and hold as true that there is a in fact a world them and that what they themselves and society observes in the external world is true. The Matrix. This doesn't mean we shouldn't believe in, live, and be very much lot in the world. This doesn't justify denying the physics. I''m not saying whatever a person believe is true; There's no need to be Buzz Lightyear, but I am saying everything outside of personal experience in the mind is taken on belief. The only reason the human mind is able to take video games and stories seriously at all is because it has no way of 100% proving directly to the mind it isn't real, so it keeps tabs on it, in case it's. The more a story begins to ressemble, coincide, and reaffirm facts we already believe the more the brain believes it's real. It pays attention to this information more resources to it. Sidenote: This brings attention to the fact that people don't have full control over what they believe. To a certain extent, the mind must be conditioned and coaxed into believing something. Getting the brain to believe something it doesn't want to believe can be frustrating. I've experience it, and I can imagine such. Now let's apply this to Kingdom Hearts and you.

Your brain doesn't want to believe Kingdom Hearts is real, but as you, Roger (your consciousness), wants to enjoy yourself, you want to believe it's real; however, because the information presented before you is causing so many contradictions in your current embodiment of beliefs, you'd have to get rid of them or think about how the two can coincide. Either way it's a frustating situation for you, So, you decide, "Screw it" and you don't take it seriously because you've decided you don't believe it's real. Perhaps you'd grant in some other universe with different rules it could exist, but it doesn't or couldn't exist in your universe. This causes a lack of care, and that's fine. I'm not judging or making an argument for what you should do. I enjoying explaining things because as I type out and explain something to someone else. I gain a ton of insights, and am able to better understand the topic myself. It's the benefit and reward of teaching. Huh, it's pretty interesting that there is one because I've wondered why someone would want to teach. It sounds absolutely awful to have to repeat the same information that I alright clearly know, over and over again. That's insane, but I guess this isn't really the cause at all most of the time. It seems to be true that as someone teaches something to another they learn something new.

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