Author: Don Dailey
Date: 10:37:51 12/14/97
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>>In my experiences, humans are irrational creatures and are far too >>subject to their emotions and have strong biases that cloud their >>judgement. ` > >Aha. Now I understand. You are a vulcan and you believe (like e.g. SAREK >believes) that emotions cloud their judgements. >Hm. I don't believe like SAREK or any vulcan. >Kirk always won against Spock in chess, although SPOCK tried not to have >emotions. :-) >My experience says that emotions and "clouds" that avoke biased >judgements are the most interesting feature of human-beeings. This fuzzy >feature is very difficult to react, even for vulcans or computers >(Data!). You have to admit, almost all the worlds problems are caused by our negative emotions, and our irrational sides. >The most interesting biased people are females ! I am happy to live in a >world where people are subjective and emotional and biased. I could not >exist in a world where girls are like vulcans. I agree with you here completely. An unemotional female would be not be very interesting. But I don't think I've every known one! >I never found that YOU try to discipline yourself to be rational and >havong NO distrubing emotions. When I remember it right you were a very >nicely emotional guy ! Yes, I admit to being emotional. But when I am in "scientist mode" I like to think rationally and steer around the B.S. This is more productive. But I still occasionally go crazy and experiment with highly speculative and imaginative stuff. I would go insane if all I did was the boring engineering part. But the boring, careful engineering stuff is what works I'm afraid! But the wonderful thing about being human is that we can do both! >> We do have great pattern recognition facilities which >>you have alluded to, but our judgement is pretty poor. >Hm. Really ? Yes, we excel at recognizing patterns. When our judgement is strong, it's because the patterns are there and working well for us. And we are also capable of good logic (although I rarely see this) Sometimes we combine this well with other stuff like intuition and can come up with some great things. But what REALLY holds us back is the tremendous amount of crap floating around in our brains, the stuff I mentioned earlier, irrational thought, strong unobjective biases and negative emotions. -- Don
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