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Comment by ACCount37

It's not a nice thought - how much of human thinking is just down to wiring. Pre-set connections somewhere in the big switchboard of human mind.

How much of whether you're right or wrong on a given issue is not down to knowledge, intelligence or rigor - but to pre-set biases that happen to be set the right way or the wrong way. How the same knowledge and intelligence that can guide you to truths can instead lead you to be more entrenched in wrongs, and just how hard it is to know the difference.

You can try to be better than that, but even if you do, you aren't going to escape your own nature. And most people don't even seem to try.

parent ACCount37 1 year ago

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