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To: Rainier who wrote (7838)	2/13/2003 10:17:43 AM
From: macavity	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10157

I think it is more about growing up / getting old. Just think about when you were younger or when you started trading. You were so much more certain. You had ideals. You are always thinking about the WHYs of the world . Experience humbles us. Now I am less certain. I have fewer but more tightly held beliefs. And I know longer give a damn WHY (The Motive), I only want to know HOW (The Method). When you ask people WHY they do things they come up with such a pile of crap. It is all a psychological rationalisation to let them live with themselves. post-facto rationalisation I am getting more and more convinced that people act and the explanations come later. I was reading about experiments which were done where the scientists' said that the conscious part of the brain is usually the last place aware of our actions and responses to stimuli. Hence the idea that lower (more primitive) levels of the brain get the data first. We are designed to act and think later. Blows away the concept of free will a bit. I have a few more crazy ideas, but as I say I keep them to myself. You should see me around a dinner table. I just shut up and enjoy the food and company nowadays. LOL! Trust me these views are still minority ones. People want certainty and this is the last thing that these ideas provide. -macavity