This blog is subjective and biased, because my goal is not to change the world but to find a mindmate. The purpose of my writing is to attract him by enabling him to recognize me also as his mindmate.
Of course I prefer my world view to be congruent with scientific evidence, but when I am ignorant of such, I sometimes do speculate while continuing my search for more information.
I recently got aware of the dual-process-theory:
In this article, Kahnemann's description of these systems is quoted:
| System 1 | System 2 |
|---|---|
| Unconscious reasoning | Conscious reasoning |
| Judgments based on intuition | Judgments based on critical examination |
| Processes information quickly | Processes information slowly |
| Hypothetical reasoning | Logical reasoning |
| Large capacity | Small capacity |
| Prominent in animals and humans | Prominent only in humans |
| Unrelated to working memory | Related to working memory |
| Operates effortlessly and automatically | Operates with effort and control |
| Unintentional thinking | Intentional thinking |
| Influenced by experiences, emotions, and memories | Influenced by facts, logic, and evidence |
| Can be overridden by System 2 | Used when System 1 fails to form a logical/acceptable conclusion |
| Prominent since human origins | Developed over time |
| Includes recognition, perception, orientation, etc. | Includes rule following, comparisons, weighing of options, etc. |
In entry 422, I speculated about the bell curve of what drives and determines human behavior:
"At one end, there is the hedonist brain, which has a high urge to restore homeostasis as a consequence of instinctive needs, and which also gets the strongest stimulation to its pleasure center from physical stimuli. At the other end is the Epicurean brain, which is guided predominantly by rationality and less by instinctive need for homeostasis, and which is most sensitive and responsive to emotional and intellectual stimulation of the pleasure center. The brains of the majority of people are more balanced in the middle between the two extremes."
"At one end, there is the hedonist brain, which has a high urge to restore homeostasis as a consequence of instinctive needs, and which also gets the strongest stimulation to its pleasure center from physical stimuli. At the other end is the Epicurean brain, which is guided predominantly by rationality and less by instinctive need for homeostasis, and which is most sensitive and responsive to emotional and intellectual stimulation of the pleasure center. The brains of the majority of people are more balanced in the middle between the two extremes."
By including the aspect of differing thought processes, I am refining my bell curve speculation to this new version:
I speculate, that there is a bell curve of how people's behavior is determined by either a predominance of system 1 or system 2. On one extreme people nearly or always think and behave by system 1, on the other extreme by system 2.
This topic will be continued by looking at how men's attitude to and treatment of women differ depending on the predominance of one of the two systems.
