the fallacy of truth and the truth of fallacy
As I grew older, I feel more so that everything I see, hear and think may not be true and memories are just as they are- intricate, incomplete and fleetly insignificant. Coincidentally, i read through various interesting articles by Gary Hayden. I think his views and I are pretty similar too.
Like it or not, all humans suffered from the fallacy of knowledge, memory, thinking and the 5 senses.
Primarily, we tend to see clearly all the evidence in favor of what we want to believe while blinding ourselves to everything that counts against it. This effectively gives rise to biased judgement and ultimately obstruct a complete insight to truth.
Secondly, the memories that are formed in our mental lives may also not be true. There were various scientific experiments that shows that memories can be manipulated and imprinted.. Meaning objects and variables affect and influence the the mind and causes the person to believe that things are there that were supposingly false.
Next, the 5 senses that we have are hugely inaccurate. Perhaps this is why I never really trust what I see or hear. Eg, the sight we see is pretty incomplete, we can’t see the minute details and often which, we see what we like. What we see and hear goes through an internal filter of our preconceptions, perceptions and expectations. Same applies to other senses. When we sum-ed up the information we have obtained via them- error + error= BIG ERROR. Pretty much diaster so to speak.
Finally, the thinking (cognitive process) is also sadly much flawed. Given that thinking is based on the five senses that are erroenous, thinking will turn out pretty wrong too.
