09.26.2018

Consciousness evolved with questions natural selection never designed it to answer, making truth just beyond man’s Darwinian limits.

So the world isn’t acting the way you thought it would. But we don’t see things the way they are, we see things the way we are.

An exciting recurrence jumped to my mind. Memory doesn’t get retrieved just like a genuine and accurate reflection of the past event. Memory is generated and constructed when a recollection occurs, and yes, it is strongly affected by the retrieval environment under certain circumstances. I would like to assume that this is also highly related to how our views and values are built throughout our own unique journey of growing up.

A double effect process. How you make a decision depends on your past and your current situation, sounds cliche but undoubtfully true. The past you “remembered” also depends on the past you encoded in your brain and present situations and environments. It feels sad, to think about this fact and force yourself to try harder to avoid making mistakes and take the optimal route. Decidophobia.

It’s an internally related analogy. Water doesn’t have shape. Water is the shape.