Maybe one does not “overcome” bias in the sense of vanquishing, but in the sense of getting the better of? Roll with your ape?
Makes me wonder how hard-wired our various tendencies to see (or cling to) certain obscuring maps are, and how much we can obliterate, suppress, or Aikido flip them. Without much thought I feel that I’m not averse to, um, shocking my monkey if need be, to get myself closer to rational behavior. But, yeah, up to that extremity there’s doubtlessly a humongous lot of workable “therapies” or techniques to encourage rational inclination.
I will repeatedly bring up the concept of self-valuation because I believe it’s critically involved in a lot of irrationality. The pain of the cognitive dissonance caused by the “ought to be” self map differing from actuality is the pain of devaluation. Find a way for folks not to experience that aversive grief and you’ll have removed a great barrier to clearer thinking. I think it’s possible.
Maybe one does not “overcome” bias in the sense of vanquishing, but in the sense of getting the better of? Roll with your ape?
Makes me wonder how hard-wired our various tendencies to see (or cling to) certain obscuring maps are, and how much we can obliterate, suppress, or Aikido flip them. Without much thought I feel that I’m not averse to, um, shocking my monkey if need be, to get myself closer to rational behavior. But, yeah, up to that extremity there’s doubtlessly a humongous lot of workable “therapies” or techniques to encourage rational inclination.
I will repeatedly bring up the concept of self-valuation because I believe it’s critically involved in a lot of irrationality. The pain of the cognitive dissonance caused by the “ought to be” self map differing from actuality is the pain of devaluation. Find a way for folks not to experience that aversive grief and you’ll have removed a great barrier to clearer thinking. I think it’s possible.
Upvoted for “roll with your ape”.