RE: Ego-- harmful delusion or pragmatic necessity?
May 4, 2015 at 7:32 am
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2015 at 7:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If ego is the "central nexus", then there's no point in removing it in order to remove bias - as you'll have removed inquisitive acts by default. That all inquisitive acts have some kind of bias is hardly a revelation, even machine sensory has bias (sans ego...presumably). However, if ego is a central nexus, then ego is required in order to acknowledge and overcome potential biases......so there's that.
I'm not entirely sure what the distilled bias of ego may be in your estimation, but -as central nexus alone-, I would say that it sounds something like a bias towards intelligibility (granted, the universe need and may not operate in a manner that is intelligible to us). I'm not sure if that's a problem we'd want to solve...... It just does't seem like a problem, this ego business, if ego is the central nexus of our ideas.
I don't think that it is, I think that ego is magic....I'm just playing with the idea. Full disclosure..lol.
I'm not entirely sure what the distilled bias of ego may be in your estimation, but -as central nexus alone-, I would say that it sounds something like a bias towards intelligibility (granted, the universe need and may not operate in a manner that is intelligible to us). I'm not sure if that's a problem we'd want to solve...... It just does't seem like a problem, this ego business, if ego is the central nexus of our ideas.
I don't think that it is, I think that ego is magic....I'm just playing with the idea. Full disclosure..lol.
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