I suggest everyone research Friston’s Free Energy Principle then you’ll see a common thread between most human irrationality.
Basically the whole brain even down to individual neurons view updating predictive beliefs as energy intensive and it’s life mission is to reduce that energy.
This leaves a few strategies:
1: Create a simple and sophisticated enough mental framework that will turn out right in most cases. “What goes up must go down” is a useful belief that is rarely contradicted.
2: Change the world to align with your beliefs. “Humanity is meant to care for nature” then you save an animal to prove your belief.
3: Create an unfalsifiable belief. “God has a plan” well no one can disprove this so this belief never needs updating.
or 4: Shelter yourself from evidence through isolation, exlusive communities, habitual lying, ect. “Immigrants are ruining the economy” well if you lead a life that rarely engages with immigrants like humans then you can count the rare instances as exceptions to the rule and never update this belief.
I’m sure there are more but the Free Energy Principle explains a lot of behavior. Like why do people get addicted to games of chance? Because they know winning is possible and they want to predict it, but you can’t predict true randomness so the free energy cannot be reduced. Also why we cling to anything that gives the illusion of reducing uncertainty, like a gambler “having a system” or a football fan having lucky charms.
Not meat.
Yeah isn’t it more like wrinkly fat?
Fat is animal meat bud.
animal bud is fat, meat.
flesh flesh flesh flesh, flesh.
I… I think it’s supposed to be a little joke. I think. Accuracy is not a priority, then.
It’s like saying that you can’t reason someone out of a belief or opinion that they didn’t reason themselves into. You can’t apply reason to subconscious processes and expect them to change in response. It’s been a valuable lesson for me to not try and quash my emotions with logic but to give them space to exist and process.
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