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Sofia
The self-proclaiming order is only a cover for chaos.
Theodore Adorno
But let’s move from high science to everyday life and practice.
Why did we decide to get the profession we got (or are studying now), and not some other? Why does our circle of communication consist of the people it consists of, and not of some others? Why did we fall in love with the person we fell in love with, and not with someone else? Why did we create a marriage with our current partner, although obviously there were other options?
It seems to us that every time we acted reasonably, meaningfully, thoughtfully. But that’s how it seemed to us.
The corresponding decision was made and continues to be made by our brain. And this is a funnel: first the brain makes some decision, and then it adapts to its consequences.
Yes, it’s literally physically rebuilding! He rebuilds and begins to consider his decision not only correct, but also the only possible one. That’s really the Matrix, from which you can’t escape without the help of some fabulous Morpheus!
Is it necessary to explain that the changes that have occurred in the structure of our brain affect all its subsequent decisions? It’s not so easy to turn off the road if we’ve already rolled down the slope: it doesn’t matter - in personal life, in professional life, in the field of human relations or harmful addictions.
Moreover, even our praised worldview - what we consider intimate, spiritually lived and deeply thought out (and therefore conscious and conscious) - is exactly the same program in the head. Yes, this is a very definite coupling of quite specific neurons with each other: our attitude to life is not what we think, but what connections our brain has created.
All our thoughts, worldviews and other intellectual quarrels are just automatisms of our brain. In fact, these are just stupid reflexes that only seem to us to be «conscious choices» and «meaningful decisions».
It so happened that once we fell under the influence of exactly those ideas that later became our worldview. We, driven by the same brain, found «proofs» for these ideas, used them as a life strategy - and that’s it, our brain has rebuilt for them.
Now, no matter how reasonable we seem to ourselves, our brain searches and marks only those facts that prove its rightness, and on the contrary - everything that contradicts its attitudes, it harshly ignores.
Then it’s just a matter of chance: if we’re «lucky», we’ll be shuffled by something with terrible force, life will fall apart, and we may assemble it in some new way. But by itself, our brain will not produce revolutions - it lays a track, on which we then only roll back and forth, like balloons in a bowling alley.
And it doesn’t matter what exactly we are talking about - the habit of drinking with friends after work or eating three pizzas a day, sitting on the Internet for hours and scrolling the feed on the social network or playing computer games, surfing sites with pornography or being an avid Cantian, believing in a god or a macaroni monster. It doesn’t matter what habit, what stereotype we are talking about. We’ve already been caught! And we are addicted.
Just understand correctly: we are not dependent on all this particular nonsense (it would be too simple), we depend on our own brain. We don’t even have the right to vote! Our brain invents it for us. And even before we consciously decide to speak out...
Our personality, our consciousness and in general everything we think about ourselves is just a fake outfit, it’s an English queen who reigns, but does not rule. We not only obediently agree with what our brain does, we do not even know that it is not us who decided so, not our conscious «I»!
Our near future