@Gabriel01731047@volcaholic1 What is your conspiracy theory?
You are alleging a lie. Why? Who benefits and how?
Why would this falsehood be televised?
(And I can easily imagine there is a substantial difference between a few feet at a bar and a building hundreds of feet high)
@alea_area@CovidSolidarit1 5.
We have furthermore made up some comforting myths about ourselves, like free will.
These myths make it quite hard to adopt new strategies that could respond appropriately.
Humans are a marvellously successful weed species that is nearing the end of our invasive flourishing
@alea_area@CovidSolidarit1 4.
Issues like climate change, or a global pandemic are a billion times more dangerous than a tiger in the grass, but they do not capture our attention in the same way.
@alea_area@CovidSolidarit1 3.
A couple of other important strategies are that we do what has worked in the past, and we do what people around us are doing.
This is a massive help in reducing our cognitive load.
@alea_area@CovidSolidarit1 2.
In order to cope with this massive limitation to our cognitive capacity We have evolved a bunch of filters, rules of thumb, and cultural strategies.
A main adaptation is we simply ignore stuff. If it does not seem novel, like a tiger in the grass, we simply ignore it.
@alea_area@CovidSolidarit1 Sadly it is an evolutionary mechanism.
1. Our senses take in a flood of about 40 million bits of information at any one time, but we can only consciously process something like 60 bits.
@Avabelly__ Your walkway is in the wrong place. You can spend your years being mad at the world, or you can put your walkway where it belongs and be happy. Your choice.
@Bumperpunk@aakashgupta Yes, we are harnessed in a world with autocorrect but no power to edit. But surely someone who knows sentence construction can discern the correct word from context, with a moment’s thoughtfulness?