Putting Dollars On Sunshine – The Unquantifiable World
Enlightenment, Natural World, People | (3)
By Steve Mills
Our mind constantly narrows the stream of input it receives down to definitions, conceptions and categories.
It makes it easy for our brain to manage the wide complexity of modern life, and make predictive decisions and inferences about what is currently happening. I am sure that we have evolved this way with good reason, and I bet we were doing it back when we all lived in caves or the wild grassland of prehistory.
Our minds treat objects not as they are, but as abstract categories of things. Men are treated with a certain subset of behaviours, women with another. ...
