guesswho
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I have never had a blog, the idea of a blog was never appealing, but I decided to make one, just to put my thoughts in order, to type my thoughts instead of letting them do a marathon in my head.
Right now I want to write about perception, as it is something very puzzling and interesting to me.
The only word that comes in my mind to define perception is relative, mostly relative.
I have always found it intriguing how people who see the same thing can reach different (sometimes even opposite) conclusions. I mean...you see the same shit, why does the essence of what we see and think vary so much, when the source is the same.
There are so many versions of the same things, so many versions of the same truths and ideas that it makes me wonder. Our inner world, is as rich and wonderful as the world outside our heads. The variety of species, plants and everything. I see the variety of thoughts as the variety of creatures in the jungle. It's equally amazing.
I was watching two friends argue, they were having a kind of a subtle conflict, saying some nasty shit to each other. But in the end, each one thought of the other one that he was an idiot. But there was only ONE idiot. Not two. So why did 'the idiot' think that the smarter one is the idiot? The 'idiot' didn't even understand the arguments of the smarter one, he just kept repeating the same thing, and in the end he thought he was really clever. If asked why does he think he is clever, he would respond, 'because I am'.
So you can actually be an idiot, but not know it. It gets even better. The person I am talking about has a few friends, who are needy, and approve him every time. They confirm his cleaverness. So you can be below average, but put in a proper context, you are above average. How fucked up is that?!
This makes me ask myself, do I see myself for how I really am? Do we see ourselves for how we really are?
Yes and no. We can't really be conscious of our unconscious behavior, unless we identify it. It depends on how much is pulled from the unconscious, and brought to the conscious world.
I imagine the human mind as an apartment, with rooms, but there is one room with no light. You cannot see anything in it. You cannot see how big it is. There is no sound or sense of orientation in it. No time and no space.
We can't store everything in the rooms where we live, and we can't actually throw things outside because there is no outside. We're just thoughts in an apartment. Ending in the dark room.
Jung thought we have a collective unconscious, unifying humanity all over. We may share a dark room, with the entire mankind. Or we may not.
So back to perception.
We cannot see everything for what it really is. But we can do our best too see it.
Why would someone be interested in that?
Well for the sake of accuracy for once.
For the sake of improvement.
For the sake of building a more accurate system in which we live, where there will be fewer errors.
We do need a better system do we?
Would the relativity in our perception make it flawed?
No.
I guess it just makes it human like.
Are we flawed just because we are human?
If the chemical cocktail in our brain gets altered just a little, we become so different.
Serotonin for example.
Less of that and you'll be depressed and want to kill yourself.
Your mind gets fucked because of a chemical imbalance, a very little imbalance. Just a tiny drop of substance. And you see the world with different eyes.
Freud called it Thanatos, the opposite of the so called life instinct. just a tiny drop. Something that small.
When we are in love our brain produces more serotonin, but with time, the stimuli will produce less and less. So this substance has a good side to it too lol.
So our perception is also...chemicals in a brain...a cocktail in a glass.
Our of all our organs, the brain is by far the most interesting. The most mysterious. And we're just begining to understand it. I took a test today, to see which hemisphere I use more.
The right hemisphere is more creative, intuitive, and processes the information differently.
You see the big picture first, and then you see the parts.
The left one sees the parts first, and adds them up to see the big picture.
What I do not understand is that sometimes there are many parts involved.
That would mean that if your left hemisphere is dominant you need to add up all those parts. Let's say, 50. But you miss one. You get the sum of 49. Which is a total different shit.
You would need to be very patient and meticulous. And I guess that would reflect on your behavior as well. You'd be meticulous and have everything in the proper place.
That would look like a J in the MBTI.
And the P would look like that perceiver.
I while ago I read a little from Socrates, regarding Justice.
I didn't have the patience to read the entire book. I just got the big picture and stopped reading. But I kept thinking about what he said. And it's been 2 months and I'm still thinking about that lol. He had a very interesting way of putting his philosiphies into words, with the dialogues.
I get go caught up in some things which I think about a lot.
Somebody said to me once, "People get what they deserve."
Is this a valid affirmation?
Well first of all it's has an absolute value.
Everybody gets what they deserve.
So it takes only one person to not get what it deserves, to break the meaning of the sentence.
It may also mean, People generally get what they deserve, in this case, it would allow the one person to not get what it deserves and still be a valid sentence.
But what happens when more than one person not gets what it deserves?
There are unlucky people in this world. They didn't get what they deserve. A lot actually.
And there are kind people in this world, who were used. They didn't get what they deserve either.
And there are sick people, which didn't get ill because they did something to cause that, they didn't get what they deserve either.
There are homeless people, who were born without a home, do they actually deserve that?
People were killed, in wars, did they deserve that?
The list can continue.
So, the sentence isn't only valid, but it's stupid. A generalization.
What do people deserve?
Let's assume that one person does something. He may think he deserves something out of that. Now let's assume 10 people are observing. Ask them what that person deserves.
Do we actually deserve everything we want? Must we deserve something in order to have it?
Who can decide what people deserve or what they don't?
I'm sure God can't because he doesn't exist.
I guess we can't measure how much we deserve or don't deserve, there is no equation to define that.
I thrive on meaning. I need meaning. For everything. It gives me satisfaction.
Why did I debate that sentence that much?
Because in that moment, I felt like I didn't get what I deserved.
It pisses me off that I talk and think about me so much. I start things with me and I end them with me.
I want to stop doing that but don't know how.
So me writing on perception turned out to be me writing about myself. lol
Kind of like an online journal.
I sometimes read online journals, but quite rarely.
Last one I read was about a bipolar person. He was describing everything he felt and thought. Poor guy wanted to be understood. It made me sad. Did he get what he deserved? Fuck no.
All those ups and downs, no stability.
It also seems that a lot of bipolar people are very gifted. Very intelligent..creative.
The chemical cocktail in the brain again...
I once read that ENTPs are very preoccupied with the world around them, trying to understand, rationally. Seeking some kind of greater wisdom. I found an explanation to why I am this way and I felt relieved. That there are others like me. That underneath the Ne humor and playfulness, there is something serious. There is a craving for understanding. And even though that level of greater wisdom will not be reached, I would gladly try reaching it. It makes me happy and excited when I understand something. It gives meaning to me, as a person, when I find meaning to something.
The side I show to everybody, is the humor and games. This I keep to myself. I only share it with my friends...barely.
That's why I wrote a blog.
I cannot keep things to myself. I must share. I want to find others like me. To connect.
This is all for now. I'm tired.
Right now I want to write about perception, as it is something very puzzling and interesting to me.
The only word that comes in my mind to define perception is relative, mostly relative.
I have always found it intriguing how people who see the same thing can reach different (sometimes even opposite) conclusions. I mean...you see the same shit, why does the essence of what we see and think vary so much, when the source is the same.
There are so many versions of the same things, so many versions of the same truths and ideas that it makes me wonder. Our inner world, is as rich and wonderful as the world outside our heads. The variety of species, plants and everything. I see the variety of thoughts as the variety of creatures in the jungle. It's equally amazing.
I was watching two friends argue, they were having a kind of a subtle conflict, saying some nasty shit to each other. But in the end, each one thought of the other one that he was an idiot. But there was only ONE idiot. Not two. So why did 'the idiot' think that the smarter one is the idiot? The 'idiot' didn't even understand the arguments of the smarter one, he just kept repeating the same thing, and in the end he thought he was really clever. If asked why does he think he is clever, he would respond, 'because I am'.
So you can actually be an idiot, but not know it. It gets even better. The person I am talking about has a few friends, who are needy, and approve him every time. They confirm his cleaverness. So you can be below average, but put in a proper context, you are above average. How fucked up is that?!
This makes me ask myself, do I see myself for how I really am? Do we see ourselves for how we really are?
Yes and no. We can't really be conscious of our unconscious behavior, unless we identify it. It depends on how much is pulled from the unconscious, and brought to the conscious world.
I imagine the human mind as an apartment, with rooms, but there is one room with no light. You cannot see anything in it. You cannot see how big it is. There is no sound or sense of orientation in it. No time and no space.
We can't store everything in the rooms where we live, and we can't actually throw things outside because there is no outside. We're just thoughts in an apartment. Ending in the dark room.
Jung thought we have a collective unconscious, unifying humanity all over. We may share a dark room, with the entire mankind. Or we may not.
So back to perception.
We cannot see everything for what it really is. But we can do our best too see it.
Why would someone be interested in that?
Well for the sake of accuracy for once.
For the sake of improvement.
For the sake of building a more accurate system in which we live, where there will be fewer errors.
We do need a better system do we?
Would the relativity in our perception make it flawed?
No.
I guess it just makes it human like.
Are we flawed just because we are human?
If the chemical cocktail in our brain gets altered just a little, we become so different.
Serotonin for example.
Less of that and you'll be depressed and want to kill yourself.
Your mind gets fucked because of a chemical imbalance, a very little imbalance. Just a tiny drop of substance. And you see the world with different eyes.
Freud called it Thanatos, the opposite of the so called life instinct. just a tiny drop. Something that small.
When we are in love our brain produces more serotonin, but with time, the stimuli will produce less and less. So this substance has a good side to it too lol.
So our perception is also...chemicals in a brain...a cocktail in a glass.
Our of all our organs, the brain is by far the most interesting. The most mysterious. And we're just begining to understand it. I took a test today, to see which hemisphere I use more.
The right hemisphere is more creative, intuitive, and processes the information differently.
You see the big picture first, and then you see the parts.
The left one sees the parts first, and adds them up to see the big picture.
What I do not understand is that sometimes there are many parts involved.
That would mean that if your left hemisphere is dominant you need to add up all those parts. Let's say, 50. But you miss one. You get the sum of 49. Which is a total different shit.
You would need to be very patient and meticulous. And I guess that would reflect on your behavior as well. You'd be meticulous and have everything in the proper place.
That would look like a J in the MBTI.
And the P would look like that perceiver.
I while ago I read a little from Socrates, regarding Justice.
I didn't have the patience to read the entire book. I just got the big picture and stopped reading. But I kept thinking about what he said. And it's been 2 months and I'm still thinking about that lol. He had a very interesting way of putting his philosiphies into words, with the dialogues.
I get go caught up in some things which I think about a lot.
Somebody said to me once, "People get what they deserve."
Is this a valid affirmation?
Well first of all it's has an absolute value.
Everybody gets what they deserve.
So it takes only one person to not get what it deserves, to break the meaning of the sentence.
It may also mean, People generally get what they deserve, in this case, it would allow the one person to not get what it deserves and still be a valid sentence.
But what happens when more than one person not gets what it deserves?
There are unlucky people in this world. They didn't get what they deserve. A lot actually.
And there are kind people in this world, who were used. They didn't get what they deserve either.
And there are sick people, which didn't get ill because they did something to cause that, they didn't get what they deserve either.
There are homeless people, who were born without a home, do they actually deserve that?
People were killed, in wars, did they deserve that?
The list can continue.
So, the sentence isn't only valid, but it's stupid. A generalization.
What do people deserve?
Let's assume that one person does something. He may think he deserves something out of that. Now let's assume 10 people are observing. Ask them what that person deserves.
Do we actually deserve everything we want? Must we deserve something in order to have it?
Who can decide what people deserve or what they don't?
I'm sure God can't because he doesn't exist.
I guess we can't measure how much we deserve or don't deserve, there is no equation to define that.
I thrive on meaning. I need meaning. For everything. It gives me satisfaction.
Why did I debate that sentence that much?
Because in that moment, I felt like I didn't get what I deserved.
It pisses me off that I talk and think about me so much. I start things with me and I end them with me.
I want to stop doing that but don't know how.
So me writing on perception turned out to be me writing about myself. lol
Kind of like an online journal.
I sometimes read online journals, but quite rarely.
Last one I read was about a bipolar person. He was describing everything he felt and thought. Poor guy wanted to be understood. It made me sad. Did he get what he deserved? Fuck no.
All those ups and downs, no stability.
It also seems that a lot of bipolar people are very gifted. Very intelligent..creative.
The chemical cocktail in the brain again...
I once read that ENTPs are very preoccupied with the world around them, trying to understand, rationally. Seeking some kind of greater wisdom. I found an explanation to why I am this way and I felt relieved. That there are others like me. That underneath the Ne humor and playfulness, there is something serious. There is a craving for understanding. And even though that level of greater wisdom will not be reached, I would gladly try reaching it. It makes me happy and excited when I understand something. It gives meaning to me, as a person, when I find meaning to something.
The side I show to everybody, is the humor and games. This I keep to myself. I only share it with my friends...barely.
That's why I wrote a blog.
I cannot keep things to myself. I must share. I want to find others like me. To connect.
This is all for now. I'm tired.
