Articles for tag: thought, inferences, perception, bias, appearance, reality, cognition

I’m still a taxi man to some!

Following on from August 2023, when I said ‘I’m an Uber driver‘, another situation arose today around 19:15PM. I am obviously not in control over what people may perceive and then draw a probable interference. Something about my appearance or that taken together with the colour or shape or model of my car, led to ...

Critical thinking 2.0

In 2013 I wrote on ‘What is Critical Thinking?‘. Time does fly. That post was 10 years ago. From then I’ve continued to read up and expand my knowledge. My interactions on various forums has led me to a view that most people ‘out there’ demonstrate little if any of critical thinking mindsets. I decided ...

Suspend mode

“What now?“- you may wonder. “What’s he on about this time?” – I’m no mind reader but I may have heard you think it. Well – it is been playing on my mind – in the back of my consciousness – that the humans have a ‘suspend mode‘. Oh yes – I’ve been observing for ...

Musk threatens to go thermonuclear!

Wow! I’m just loving Musk for what he is doing with Twitter. It is world changing! See what the WSJ says (link may not survive forever). Of course not everybody will understand or appreciate. My bias has always been for freedom of expression. I nor Musk never said unrestricted free speech! FFS! So what happened? ...

How human thought flows

This post is going to be updated at regular intervals. I found a way to hide text from posts until they are properly completed. So – what’s seen at this time is only what I want to show. Yes – I can do non-published drafts. But I find it better to show as I go, ...

Starting over with belief

Belief and believing (etc) have been a big part of my attention for many years. Having read a lot on this, I decided to start all over. What I mean is, I’m going back to the roots of belief. There are things that determine beliefs and I will go into that as well. Why should ...