That would mean there is only 800 people on the planet that think "differently". I'm pretty sure I've met a few dozen so that seems statistically impossible.
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Could be a matter of perspective. When you live on a mathematically perfect plane, every dustspeck looks like a skyscraper.
Nah, they are definitely skyscrapers.
I disagree. It is probably more like a normal distribution in terms of thoughts/thinking where some low double digit minority percentage think, not just differently, but actually think, as in use their reasoning faculties. Then you have a significant chunk in the middle that simply cannot do this. They go through life on rails, emotionally "reasoning", "vibe thinking" if you will. These are the people that treat politics as if it were a team sport and are easily manipulated. They also love advertisements because they are comforting beacons of thought and style that shepherds them along on what to buy and when to buy it. The bottom percentage can't even do that because they can barely read and are functionally illiterate.
To your point about the ant thing: the vibe thinkers from each anthill can be easily manipulated into hating each other over dumb shit.
Asserting that the vast majority of people don't think is about as bold a statement of bigotry as you can make.
Most thoughts are boring, trite, and unoriginal. A small minority of us have the training, resources, and reputation to translate their thoughts into textbooks and policies and institutes, but the thoughts they have aren't in general any higher quality than the rest of the species.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Asserting that the vast majority of people don’t think is about as bold a statement of bigotry as you can make.
And yet, I can point to a number of democracies that directly voted against their best interest and are now suffering the consequences of those actions. Note, this isn't an argument against democracy, but merely presented evidence for the absence of thinking and the all encompassing reality that racism, bigotry, and other intolerances act as short cuts for thinking that these people use. They aren't any less of a person, but they definitely shouldn't be voting without thorough consideration of the consequences (ie. thinking).
Most thoughts are boring, trite, and unoriginal. A small minority of us have the training, resources, and reputation to translate their thoughts into textbooks and policies and institutes, but the thoughts they have aren’t in general any higher quality than the rest of the species.
You're not wrong about the first bit, and are supporting my argument with the second bit. And I freely admit that I am not bestowing the benefit of the doubt that Mr. Gould did. And really, if we had more thinking in our society, maybe those of equal talent to Mr. E=MC^2^ would actually get the opportunity to dazzle humanity instead of obscurely slave laboring.
Sure. But we're just semanticizing over what constitutes minor details.
I mean we might agree that authority speaks truth but differ on who the authority is. I'd call the former the substantial thought and the latter the detail.
We all have fundamentally the same stupid monkey brain. Given a novel problem, we usually all make the same stupid mistakes. But it only takes a tiny factor of divergence for each of us to evolve into a totally unique system.
Seeing identically already does not work.
I mean childs are less selective and how selective each elder is depends on how they grew up
I interpret/visualise what your post is about to something like "when i where born as you (but like with my brain) i would have acted the same, seen the same things and thought the same thoughts" which i think is not true.
I might have been similar if i was in your shoes but in this point in time i would may have walked a completly different path with other hobbies, friends and opinions.
Those would be the minor details.