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I often hear people in my line of work saying “Man, we’re going to look back on all this crazy shit and think about how absolutely weird it was! No we won’t. Because it’s only going to get weirder. It’s only going to get weirder, because that’s what it looks like when old patterns start to fall away. The human mind is conditioned to look for patterns in order to establish a baseline of normal expectations upon which to plan out future actions. This perceptual framework exists to give us safety and security, so disruptions in the patterns upon which it is based often feel weird, threatening, and scary. They make us feel insecure, because our cognitive tool for staying in control of our wellbeing has a glitch in it. When you’re talking about a species that has been consistently
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: complex adaptive system, emergence, social change
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I often hear people in my line of work saying “Man, we’re going to look back on all this crazy shit and think about how absolutely weird it was! No we won’t. Because it’s only going to get weirder. It’s only going to get weirder, because that’s what it looks like when old patterns start to fall away. The human mind is conditioned to look for patterns in order to establish a baseline of normal expectations upon which to plan out future actions. This perceptual framework exists to give us safety and security, so disruptions in the patterns upon which it is based often feel weird, threatening, and scary. They make us feel insecure, because our cognitive tool for staying in control of our wellbeing has a glitch in it. When you’re talking about a species that has been consistently
Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important: complex adaptive system, emergence, social change
This could be interesting, too:
Mike Norman writes Why the Mind Cannot Just Emerge From the Brain — Robert J. Marks and Michael Egnor
Mike Norman writes Nina Montgomery — Does capitalism need a radical redesign to become more inclusive?
Mike Norman writes Neoliberalism Tells Us We’re Selfish Souls – How Can We Promote Other Identities? — Christine Berry
Mike Norman writes Robert Paul Wolff — “The Future of Socialism” (article)
I often hear people in my line of work saying “Man, we’re going to look back on all this crazy shit and think about how absolutely weird it was!
No we won’t. Because it’s only going to get weirder.
It’s only going to get weirder, because that’s what it looks like when old patterns start to fall away.
The human mind is conditioned to look for patterns in order to establish a baseline of normal expectations upon which to plan out future actions. This perceptual framework exists to give us safety and security, so disruptions in the patterns upon which it is based often feel weird, threatening, and scary. They make us feel insecure, because our cognitive tool for staying in control of our wellbeing has a glitch in it.
When you’re talking about a species that has been consistently patterned towards its own destruction, though, a disruption of patterns is a good thing....