Conditioning of mind is inevitable…no knowledge can be gained without some priori assumption. (A priori)
Knowledge starts as a belief, an intrinsic instinct or sense data pointing towards certain information to be true. So our trust on our senses and perception is perhaps the first conditioning human mind goes through. Second we learn to trust what we are not directly acquainted through…knowledge by description. I believe that there was once a man named Alexander who almost conquered the world. I am however not acquainted with him, I know him through description, through accounts of those who had been acquainted to him. This belief is again a conditioning.
The point I am arriving that even a second order cybernetic if conscious will be inevitably conditioned to accept certain information as matter of fact, at least its own senses.
Second argument being that the conscious human mind with all its intellect knows so little about minds of lower organism, minds of animals and insects. Human mind when studying minds of other creatures say an ape can be considered akin to a second order cybernetics . There exist no visible reason for any kind of subjective bias creeping into such studies. Why then we are not able to analyze them / what makes us incapable of knowing what exactly goes around in their minds. How it then can we expect the second order cybernetics to is analyze and decipher a much more complex human mind?
I believe that its better we continue with human mind only continuing with the process of discovering its secret. Introspection and systematic observation and analysis has taken us this far…I hope it will take us the rest of the way too.
A fear that such a process cannot remove all the false belief and information that we have already got conditioned to…but this is something that we have to bear with…evolution is still a very slow process for me….and I don’t expect to see answers to this in my life time….but humanity will one day find answers to all that troubles it conscious, irrespective of the (survival) conditioning it has undergone
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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