How do you know you're more justified? (meta-thinking)

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How do you know you're more justified? (meta-thinking)
OP - July 21, 2011, 11:34 PM

So we know about the baloney detector, or having an open but critical mind, to seek complete information or biases your mind can have in erroneously making you think irrationally ... yet there can be disagreement on simple things. I'm don't talking about differences in opinions about the economy I mean simple things like going to war or tuition fees. Though really - I take that back - going to war or tuition fees are not trivial subject matters - and as a result, just like economics or subatomic physics - I do think with complexity it increases the likelihood of not having complete information, biases the mind has which can affect judgment, etc ... and so as a result I guess it does make sense there are such ranging views based on an array of justifications at different lengths, breadths and dimensions from one's perception. Shame there just isn't time to absolutely know everything - but the key here would be to be smart in gathering required information and assessing it.

On top of this there is a difference between what people know/understand and hold an opinion on - and how they communicate it.

Just sharing this in case others had an an opinion/wondered about meta-thinking (thinking about thinking) which ends up causing views where one person's most honest views can be ludicrous when judged by another.

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Re: How do you know you're more justified? (meta-thinking)
Reply #1 - July 21, 2011, 11:38 PM

We all see the same thing, but interpret it differently. Do you see a young or old woman? Can you see them both at the same time?

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Re: How do you know you're more justified? (meta-thinking)
Reply #2 - July 22, 2011, 12:05 AM

I saw the old woman first then the young one came into focus.

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Re: How do you know you're more justified? (meta-thinking)
Reply #3 - July 22, 2011, 01:05 AM

I saw the young one first, then I screamed when I saw the old one.

Now that I see the way you put it, I never realised that that was what I had been doing all along .. thinking about thinking. I'm always doing that, always trying to figure out why someone else doesn't see things the way I do and vice versa, and maybe go as far as trying to think the way others would think.

This is one of the many reasons why I love thinking, not only does it make you feel alive, and human; you also realise why we are the way we are, when I was a muslim I would have added - why we are the way Allah has made us - but now it feels so much more powerful and beyond our unlimited yet limited imagination that the way we are is from evolving from prior species.
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Re: How do you know you're more justified? (meta-thinking)
Reply #4 - July 22, 2011, 11:22 PM

@Maya: Well I saw the opposite because of well *ahem* ...
@Zaiba: When is a time you have gone as far to really disagree and tried to think the way another person thinks? I mean REALLY try?

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Re: How do you know you're more justified? (meta-thinking)
Reply #5 - July 22, 2011, 11:26 PM

I see some dark blotches and some muthafuckin squiggly lines and shit.

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Re: How do you know you're more justified? (meta-thinking)
Reply #6 - July 22, 2011, 11:29 PM

It looks like a chicken leg to me. But then, so does everyone and everything right now.
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