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Jan. 24th, 2025
After talking to a friend (a real close friend whom I know more than 10 years), a brilliant scientist and a person very prone to introspective analysis, I realized (once again): a lot of our personal conflicts, if not most of them, are coming from the inability to understand how another person's mind works.
We are all locked inside our sculls and the only way for our brain to contact reality (a tiny part of it) are the 5 standard senses...though some people including our former research group thinks there are minimum 6 (magnetoreception), that's still not enough.
Each brain is unique and the neural connections in it are formed by the unique genetic makeup and then even more unique individual life experience.
I often wonder how the hell people understand each other at all - they do understand those parts which are common knowledge, machines, programs, more or less all that functions based on universal laws.
But when it comes to the individual perception modes and styles of thinking, we seem to be lonely islands divided by the ocean expanse.
"I can't understand her, her motives, because what you describe is a mechanism which is literally non-existent in me".
We are all locked inside our sculls and the only way for our brain to contact reality (a tiny part of it) are the 5 standard senses...though some people including our former research group thinks there are minimum 6 (magnetoreception), that's still not enough.
Each brain is unique and the neural connections in it are formed by the unique genetic makeup and then even more unique individual life experience.
I often wonder how the hell people understand each other at all - they do understand those parts which are common knowledge, machines, programs, more or less all that functions based on universal laws.
But when it comes to the individual perception modes and styles of thinking, we seem to be lonely islands divided by the ocean expanse.
"I can't understand her, her motives, because what you describe is a mechanism which is literally non-existent in me".