tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post2798299691040154808..comments2024-03-28T07:50:06.102-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Olivia Goldhill — A philosopher who studies life changes says our biggest decisions can never be rationalmike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-18872465459876510692017-08-13T22:12:34.962-04:002017-08-13T22:12:34.962-04:00All decision making is emotional.
Stressful decis...All decision making is emotional.<br /><br />Stressful decision making requires involvement of the Gods. Alluding to The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.djrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687024819979476984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-45604032105444477272017-08-13T18:32:11.670-04:002017-08-13T18:32:11.670-04:00I think L. A. Paul is on to something here, and no...I think L. A. Paul is on to something here, and note it began with her experience, profound enough to kick her mind into gear in an effort to analyse and interpret. <br /><br />To offer another view - I always see an interaction between the personality and the self.<br /><br />Between them is a two-way street; narrow at first, barely traversable – a fine thread. Experiences accumulate in the personality and the self reacts, feeding back its view to the personality life; in the early stages this area of awareness in the personality is called conscience. The thread vibrates, widens and grows stronger – ‘moral’ character develops; the emotional and thought life change accordingly; mental capacity and emotional sensitivity (intelligence) expand; the ‘I’ becomes more humanitarian. At some point, thread upon thread has been woven into a cable, stable and strong enough for the self to send a life changing pulse down to the personality. The personality registers in its own way that the self exists and makes a conscious determination to turn this cable into a bridge. It wants to know more. Conscience widens into awareness of a ‘presence’. Mind interprets this perhaps culturally, religiously, philosophically – <i>’the good, the beautiful and the true’.</i> When the connection becomes strong enough a second pulse is sent, and the personality becomes a dedicated humanitarian, working in whatever field of life the self has chosen. At the third pulse, personality meets self, face to face, and all doubt is removed. At the same time, the self completes its first tenuous conscious connection to its parent above. This registers in the personality life also, because of the lower bridge. At the fourth pulse all bridges are complete. Life proceeds from revelation to revelation. All new pulses come directly from the Life and the Ageless Wisdom maps the path ahead for the little spark of spirit, become man. Why mothers become philosophers, beyond rationality ...??!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com