Maturation and Evolution
This is a further generalization of my speculations in entry 328.
I speculate, that the maturation of an individual is the process of passing through the phases of evolution. In the best case, maturity means reaching level 3 of consequencity as described in entry 342.
A child is born as an animal and it continues as such, until the acquisition of language enables the gullibility of the preschool infant. Rationality is developed during schooling, and level 3 can be reached by the end of puberty.
But intelligence, brain peculiarities, extreme detrimental influences, traumatic experiences and such can disturb and distort the development. Under such unfavorable circumstances people get stuck in an earlier phase, while only sane and mentally healthy people reach full maturity. Robots (entry 341) have been stuck at an early age nearest to the phase of being instinct driven animals, while the puppets (entry 341) have been stuck at some time during the phase of gullibility.
Also people can get stuck in limited areas of the mind and of cognition, as if the mind were fragmented.
This is a further generalization of my speculations in entry 328.
I speculate, that the maturation of an individual is the process of passing through the phases of evolution. In the best case, maturity means reaching level 3 of consequencity as described in entry 342.
A child is born as an animal and it continues as such, until the acquisition of language enables the gullibility of the preschool infant. Rationality is developed during schooling, and level 3 can be reached by the end of puberty.
But intelligence, brain peculiarities, extreme detrimental influences, traumatic experiences and such can disturb and distort the development. Under such unfavorable circumstances people get stuck in an earlier phase, while only sane and mentally healthy people reach full maturity. Robots (entry 341) have been stuck at an early age nearest to the phase of being instinct driven animals, while the puppets (entry 341) have been stuck at some time during the phase of gullibility.
Also people can get stuck in limited areas of the mind and of cognition, as if the mind were fragmented.
- Religious and woowoo believes are usually acquired during early childhood, while scientific and skeptical thinking is acquired much later at university. In the best case, skeptical thinking can replace the obsolete gullible believes. Instead there is quite often the phenomenon of scientists believing in a deity without even acknowledging the contradiction. It is as if in some part of the brain, the development had been stuck, while in another, it had continued.
- There is the same unacknowledged contradiction, when men are otherwise highly cultivated, educated, even sensitive enough to be teachers, authors, therapists, but they are promiscuous and ruthlessly use women's bodies as disrespected commodities. In one part of their brain, they are stuck in the phase of being animals, while other parts have been developed much further.
People determined by consequencity are able to get aware of contradictions. They experience cognitive dissonance as a corrective enabling them to eliminate contradictions. Those who are partially stuck, are mindblind and void of cognitive dissonance.
