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RE: Understanding Ourselves and Figuring Out Why We Do What We Do

in #psychology7 years ago

I would agree with this. Do you think there is a preferable way to gain self-insight? The world is flooded with competing strategies, and it may turn out that there are multiple ways of getting there, that contact themselves from first principles.

Interested in your thoughts 🙂

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Self-examination, analysis, introspection of one's own behavior and the relation to morality; psychology, brain functionality, neuroscience, and probably others. But those are the main ways to learn about ourselves that I can think of :) What are your thoughts?

Yeah, I have settled on introspection, it works very well for that. I would say study of psychology and Neuroscience, but this can be a very mixed bag, and can mislead as much as illuminate. (Think the dogmatic psychologist from the 80's, refusing to discuss high-functioning autism?)

I suppose this is because people are also drawn to knowledge for reasons of power. If you adopt it for that reason, it becomes quite rigid; loosing its ability to adapt over time. I'm not sure why this is the case, just something I have observed.

Knowing yourself can only be done with a very soft touch!