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To: koan who wrote (359)1/27/2014 9:35:14 PM
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re: "But I think most people live in a total fantasy land and it puzzles me that so many have a hard time breaking free of dogmatic indoctrination they get when young e.g. religion."

I'm not going to discount there are likely sound reasons for the way our mind creates that reality that are not completely under our control. We have a reaction to a heat sensation for a reason - a hot stove can burn us. There's probably considerable value in understanding why we respond the way we do (I think much evolutionary hardwiring) rather than cultural influence. Indoctrination, ability and propensity to imitate/learn, shared point of view (tribalism), etc - lots of evolutionary hardwiring in there I think. Not that we're totally on autopilot, but there's probably more hard-wiring than most realize. I'm not of the mind as a blank slate school. (The Broca's Brain book you mention I think helps demonstrate some of this)

Why does a rabbit eat the beans in my garden? It's just what rabbits do. I think there's maybe a little bit more of rabbit in us than we often admit. In any event, I find it likely the ego is just riding along on top of some pretty heavy machinery that it doesn't understand. all fwiw, and imho.
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