When you know something but can't justify it to yourself.
May 28, 2016 at 10:49 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2016 at 10:53 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I suck at this so bad. Sometimes I just intuitively know something is right or wrong but my brain is like "nope".
It's like unless I can justify why something is right, wrong, true, untrue or even rude or polite my brain won't listen.
Maybe "know" is the wrong word, knowledge DOES require justification by definition, really.
But the same applies to just being confident about something to me. I can have a motive to say something and then get a feeling "Nope don't say that that's rude and a bad idea" and my rational part of my brain will say "How exactly?" And my intuitive side will say "It just is. I just know." And my rational side will say "You clearly don't know it. You "Just know" isn't good enough. You're talking like a theist. Until you explain why it is rude I am gonna keep saying it."
And then anytime I say rude stuff my intuitive side is like "I knew it! I knew I shouldn't have said it!" Rational side is like "You didn't know it at all you just got lucky." Intuitive side is like"What, I got lucky 10,000 times in a row." And my rational side is like "Confirmation bias. You're counting the hits and ignoring the misses. There are plenty of times you feel something is rude but then when you and I, Alasdair, say it it turned out to be fine." Intuitive self is like "I feel like you're not just searching for rational reasons I feel like you are making excuses, rationalizations and are in fact no more rational than I am", rational self is like "I don't care how you feel, your feelings are not rational and why should I listen to them." Intuitive self is like "I just know you are wrong and it isn't as simple as you make it. You are making excuses and rationalizations. It's not reasonable to have to justify everything." Rational self is like "How isn't it?" And intuitive self is like "It just isn't." Rational self is like "Justify that."
Please help with the cognitive dissonance in my brain
Already been talking to Losty about this just now and she is free to share anything we have already discussed about it if she wants to.
It's like unless I can justify why something is right, wrong, true, untrue or even rude or polite my brain won't listen.
Maybe "know" is the wrong word, knowledge DOES require justification by definition, really.
But the same applies to just being confident about something to me. I can have a motive to say something and then get a feeling "Nope don't say that that's rude and a bad idea" and my rational part of my brain will say "How exactly?" And my intuitive side will say "It just is. I just know." And my rational side will say "You clearly don't know it. You "Just know" isn't good enough. You're talking like a theist. Until you explain why it is rude I am gonna keep saying it."
And then anytime I say rude stuff my intuitive side is like "I knew it! I knew I shouldn't have said it!" Rational side is like "You didn't know it at all you just got lucky." Intuitive side is like"What, I got lucky 10,000 times in a row." And my rational side is like "Confirmation bias. You're counting the hits and ignoring the misses. There are plenty of times you feel something is rude but then when you and I, Alasdair, say it it turned out to be fine." Intuitive self is like "I feel like you're not just searching for rational reasons I feel like you are making excuses, rationalizations and are in fact no more rational than I am", rational self is like "I don't care how you feel, your feelings are not rational and why should I listen to them." Intuitive self is like "I just know you are wrong and it isn't as simple as you make it. You are making excuses and rationalizations. It's not reasonable to have to justify everything." Rational self is like "How isn't it?" And intuitive self is like "It just isn't." Rational self is like "Justify that."
Please help with the cognitive dissonance in my brain Already been talking to Losty about this just now and she is free to share anything we have already discussed about it if she wants to.
