Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intell...
May 22, 2014 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2014 at 12:52 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
(May 22, 2014 at 9:59 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I'm moving on. As usual only bennyboy has any real understanding of the issues involved.
"His comments match my presumptions; so the rest of you don't understand anything, and we're both smarter than anyone else."
This is called The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight.
Quote:The illusion of asymmetric insight is a cognitive bias whereby people perceive their knowledge of others to surpass other people's knowledge of themselves.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_...ic_insight
See also The Dunning-Kreuger effect:
Quote:Unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.[1]
Those persons to whom a skill or set of skills come easily may find themselves with weak self-confidence, as they may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. See Impostor syndrome.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
See also, Confirmation bias:
Quote:Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Your inability to examine positions differing from your own does not demonstrate those positions are flawed, or based on a misunderstanding of your position.