Every now and then I see the mental blocks some people put up unconsciously, when they've preemptively decided they're going to disagree with new data.
Today someone mentally blocked out every identifying marker in a video I'd shared with them, so they could claim they didn't know who was in the interview.
But there was no *conscious* intent to their actions. Some deeper part blocked them from being able to recognize the interviewee clearly labelled all throughout.
Fascinating and disturbing.
@MLClark Were they able to accept the information once you pointed out who it was?
Not really. I'm still waiting on their next reply, after I reflected on the way I'd set up the link with key info as well, and asked for their feedback on how I'd contextualized the video / could write more clearly for them next time.
But when I went back to the video the info was also right there in the title, a MASSIVE explainer sat in the video information, and the video had plenty of mentions itself. So they must have gone in with a HUGE chip to ignore every surface detail.
@MLClark That is amazing. I have misread sentences before, but I wonder how traumatized or brainwashed I would have to be to miss something like that.
Please don't put that to the test, even for science. 😬
As per my discussion with @AskTheDevil .
The word "transcend" applies, not in any woo woo mystical sense. But in a real world contemplation of my own biases.
Wholeheartedly. Observing his mental blocks made me think hard about my own.
I really enjoyed following your chat, by the way - so thank you for holding it here.
We're pretty remarkable meat-sacks, @MLClark 😉
John Moe on his Depresh Mode podcast coines the phrase, "Depression lies," I've adapted it to, "Anxiety lies," to identify my own processing loop. I always give credence to the worst case scenario, even though it's often not the case.
It's really quite staggering to think of all the things our brains could be doing, if they weren't such pros at making themselves/us miserable instead, eh?
I'm glad you've found an "input" you can use to disrupt your negative processing loop. Long may it serve - and thank you for sharing.
@MLClark well I can you this, I died and can back sone years ago I have been relearning. Since I have no past to deal with. Not easy for me. Brain damaged plus body damage. I keep working hard and keep moving forward the best I can.
Each of us is a bundle of habituated biochemical reactions that cannot see outside its own processing loop. We respond to new inputs based on past experiences - and every single one of us has a different mess of them.
As such, we often genuinely talk past one another - without meaning to, and without meaning to do each other harm. Some simply cannot grok much of anything that threatens a core belief.
It's honestly astonishing that we manage to communicate as well as we do at all, sometimes.