On life & creative projects -> the reality in which we are actually living is generated by our consciousness , our mind chooses to believe some maps, discard many others and stitch them together to create our own map (made of maps made of maps); it's a lot of work and it doesn't make sense to throw it all out and start again from scratch so we always, at best, try to integrate new sub-maps (if we believe them to be true) in our existing map; when we fail, we end up in a state of unpleasant cognitive dissonance, when we succeed we update our reality; we don't interact directly with the territory but through the user interface our mind creates (out of maps), only when things go wrong we may decide we need an interface update
What's one contrarian view you embrace?-> D. Dennett has a long list of contrarian views like: "Yes, we have X but it's not what you think it is", i will pick just one: Yes, we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots -> https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/191761-some-years-ago-there-was-a-lovely-philosopher-of-science ; please, if you know any literature or movies that get this right (instead of insisting that there's something special and forever incomprehensible from which our soul is made of), let me know!
On life & creative projects -> the reality in which we are actually living is generated by our consciousness , our mind chooses to believe some maps, discard many others and stitch them together to create our own map (made of maps made of maps); it's a lot of work and it doesn't make sense to throw it all out and start again from scratch so we always, at best, try to integrate new sub-maps (if we believe them to be true) in our existing map; when we fail, we end up in a state of unpleasant cognitive dissonance, when we succeed we update our reality; we don't interact directly with the territory but through the user interface our mind creates (out of maps), only when things go wrong we may decide we need an interface update
What's one contrarian view you embrace?-> D. Dennett has a long list of contrarian views like: "Yes, we have X but it's not what you think it is", i will pick just one: Yes, we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots -> https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/191761-some-years-ago-there-was-a-lovely-philosopher-of-science ; please, if you know any literature or movies that get this right (instead of insisting that there's something special and forever incomprehensible from which our soul is made of), let me know!