Workbook Edits for “Making Good Decisions”: Vol. 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity, Section#3: The Necessity and Rarity of “Two-in-One-Mind” Thinking
This post for all readers presents the third section from the workbook for Vol. 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity.
Section #3: The Necessity and Rarity of “Two-in-One-Mind” Thinking - In Volume 1 - Part I: Section #2, Rodolfo Llinás gave us a practical theory of consciousness by showing how the mind emerges, from the “Unthinking Depths” with the centralization of “Predictions” as the seat of the self. In this section, Hannah Arendt shows us how thinking develops when the mind reflects upon itself, thus becoming two minds in one brain: “Two in One Mind” thinking creates an “Infinite Regress”, a mirror facing another mirror; the perspective of the observer reflecting on the perspective of the observed as the observer, … Arendt shows how humans can overcome the structural limitations that come from the centralization of “Predictions”. “Two-in-One-Mind” thinking, individual “Embodied Intelligence”, goes beyond completing the next word, sentence, paragraph, or story based on what looks most likely given one’s training. Obedience, conformity and bias come from connecting the previously connected, the likely, and the probable at the time. Individual insight and collective growth come from connecting the disconnected, the unlikely, and the improbable: “Two in One Mind” thinking completes the pattern, from concrete “Brains” & physical “Motions” to abstract minds & conceptual motion.
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