Automation bias is an over-reliance on automated aids and decision support systems. Trust and complacency develops. Erroneous automated information is favored even when accurate contradictory non-automated information is presented. A person becomes complacent of their own ability to discern reality because they rely too much on an automated system. Instead of being aware and vigilant to seek and process information, […]
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Perceptual distractions are all the peripheral aspects of life that keep us from facing ourselves in the mirror, our shadow, the darkness within us, and getting to the heart of the darkness in life. They take up our our time that we can spend, and our attention that we pay with, our two valuable base currencies in life. They keep […]
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Anthropomorphism and personification is taking qualities, aspects, characteristics, properties and attributes of human consciousness (thoughts, emotions, intentions, behavior) or physical forms (body, face, eye), and applying them to non-human entities, real or imagined. Anthropomorphism is seen in recent and older children’s animated movies, children literature, comics, sci-fi, other fiction, and all the way back to ancient mythologies. Anthropomorphism has been […]
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The availability heuristic works like it sounds: whatever is most available is most easily used to make judgments and come to decisions. Judgments are based on memory recall. Recent information is imprinted on memory more vividly, and also primes us towards focusing on that information. The less something is vivid or available, the less likely it is to be used. […]
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Identification and Attachment Attachment blinds us to reality. Attachment is the root of suffering. Detachment is freedom. Attachment applies on many levels of life because its intricately rooted into our ego-personality-identity construct, our sense of self, self-image, self-view and worldview perception of the world. The more we value and identify with things, the more we become attached to them. This […]
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Simply by speaking we influence others, and can even manipulate them. Tell others what they want to hear, true or false, and you will be able to influence them more. Tell them things they don’t want to hear, true or false, and they will likely reject your influence and maybe you. This can be used by people to get you […]
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Attentional bias is when we focus our attention on one specific thing. Cognitively, this is when we focus on one or two possible outcomes instead of seeing more options available. Physically it’s to focus our attention on a specific sensory stimulus. To focus on one thing at a time is useful. It prevent our brains from being bombarded with multiple […]
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The word economics is related to management. But management of what? Is it only concerning the management of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services? Or is there more to the word economics? Etymology Here are some etymological origins of the word economy: from Greek oikonomikos, oikonomia “household management” from oikos “house, abode, dwelling” + nomos “manage, custom, law, […]
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Ignorance and nescience may be considered the same, but when looking at the core etymology of each word, we discover that they slightly differ in an important respect. Ignore: To refuse to pay attention to; disregard; take no notice of. Synonyms: snub, brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, neglect, pay no attention to, overlook, pass over, shut your eyes to, […]
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Reality exists, unreality does not. This is a basic understanding to start from. The unreality of imagination within our consciousness can become manifested into the reality that does exist. The image and idea of a chair in consciousness can be constructed from something already existing, like a tree, and be created, generated and manifested into reality as a real chair. […]
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