- We live in an age where artificial intelligence (AI) is working hard to imitate the way people think.
- Of all our faculties, “reasoning” seems to sit at the core of human intelligence.
- So what is reasoning, really?
- To me, [reasoning] might be this: “when I’m faced with a particular problem, imagining what comes next based on my own data (my experiences).”
ex) I had an interview at Company A last week, so (going by past experience) shouldn’t I be hearing back this week?
ex) I dreamed about a flood (which, the internet tells me, is a sign of good fortune), so why haven’t I won the lottery this week?
- In the end, it’s my [reasoning], and really my [hope], that [the world will unfold] the way I think it will.
- But the world, the universe, has been going for hundreds of millions of years, since long before I was here.
- So for someone like me, only passing through for a short while, to reason that things will go the way I want is closer to plain ignorance.
★Going by the odds, it’s actually more [natural] for things not to go the way I think they will.
★ The bits of info I dig up online out of anxiety are nothing more than fragments of reasoning and guesswork.
★This is exactly what overfitting is. ex) Predicting this week from last week’s stock data. = Doomed to fail
[Reasoning] built on my thoughts, my opinions, other people’s opinions = predictions/expectations = loss/disappointment =>
(Macro) Live going with the flow of the world + (Micro) Focus on this one day (like Tolstoy)★★★
So What? :
★★Then what if I could keep the bad direction in check?
★★=Let’s use tools like meditation to clear away [‘reasoning’ = my thoughts = the noise in my head = stray thoughts = the mind’s afflictions]
-Then why not just ‘use’ this human “reasoning ability” in a way that works in my favor?
-What if I pushed it as far as it goes, in a direction that’s good for me?
= Things won’t go my way anyway = so hold on to many different dreams = and act on them one by one = opportunities will come.★★★
= Opportunity can come from ‘action’ = if you just sit still, nothing happens.★
★★Check off my To-do-list every day [action] + keep the list where I can see it [dream list]
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