Comment on How do I make myself smarter?
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 7 months agoI want the kind of smarter where I’m better at escaping illusions. Self-made, cultural or otherwise.
Despite your claim that you aren’t interested in better reasoning - that’s absolutely one aspect of what you are after.
Don’t reject methods of reasoning as tools to escape illusions, to the extent that that is possible for any of us.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 7 months ago
From my perspective that ain’t necessarily so.
And we were both born and raised in a culture that is infatuated with thinking. So when we think, “thinking is great”, we gotta wonder.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 7 months ago
C’mon - you want to know about ways of avoiding illusory beliefs, but you are sceptical about the power of reason and analytical thinking?
What alternatives are you considering?
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Considering drugs, meditation, intense pain, intense pleasure, breathing techniques, hanging out with weirdos, good art, travel, renunciation… to name a few
Can_you_change_your_username@kbin.social 7 months ago
Check out the Allegory of the Cave, might change your mind about the usefulness of Plato. You might also find something interesting in the philosophy of Pythagoras's cult and in the stoics.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 7 months ago
Those may certainly supplement analytical thinking and reasoning