How can people have erroneous thoughts,ideas,concepts,theories or hypotheses in the first place ?

Question

Since, our brains and our bodies are composed of particles that never make mistakes in forming into flawless parts. Shouldn't the matter we're composed of.Which knows how to self assemble itself by certain fixed laws also produce flawless answers & insights.When asking about it's origin or when trying to solve a given problem. I mean; how can we even make mistakes in the first place or not understand something perfectly ? It makes no sense.

I know about bad mutations or the fact that errors occur in the form of diseases;cancer,schizophrenia etc. But, if some of you think that my own reasoning about reasoing is so flawed.Why is it so.If we were all screened by the same evolutionary mechanism at the Physical,Chemical, and biological "levels" ? Why don't we all just agree with each other about everything ?
To say that it is not apropritate to consider what happens at the physical level the same as the conscious level is proven to be wrong. There is no difference between mind and matter. Take away the blood or Oxygen(matter)and you have no mind(simple). Aristotle was wrong about that and Physics.The brain is not like a computer. Not even close. There's just not much in common with a brain and a computer. It's very straightforward. Computers don't have emotions,anxiety,the need to mate( a sex drive) to motivate it to go to work or do anyhting creative. Why do people think that a computer is like a brain ? It's not.

Answer 1

The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, um… staggers me.

If I may... I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourself, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it on Yahoo! Answers!

Answer 2

Thoughts, ideas, concepts, and theories aren't part of the world of physics. If you are not satisfied that this is so, just consider how many thoughts and ideas exist which have no correlation in that world. There are no perfect straight lines. There are no gryphons. There is no magic.

All these things correlate to and can describe the real world, but it is probably not appropriate to consider them to be on the same level as things in the real world. Sure, they are produced by real world phenomenon, but consciousness is an EMERGENT PROPERTY. An emergent system is one that can be seen by sort of changing focus... a complex surface that can't be predicted by the activity of the lower layer completely. Consider other emergent properties:

At the core level, you could try to discuss everything in terms of physics. You COULD. But even scientists don't. Take chemistry. Chemistry is an emergent property of physics. Considering that it is difficult to plot even a few electrons' motion around one nucleus on the basis of electrostatic forces alone, the actions of millions of atoms constantly interacting would be all but impossible for a physicist to determine. Yet chemists do it all the time.

Likewise with biology. A good grounding in chemistry is of immense help in understanding biological systems, but these tend to follow their own rules that cannot be entirely dictated by chemistry alone. An emergent property of biology is psychology - some living things have behaviours which cannot always be explained by their biochemical and genetic makeup. And these thoughts often seem to take on a life of their own, even though they are not alive in the same sense as a biological object.

So although the motion of physical forces seem to be perfect, I would first point out that thoughts are AT LEAST three emergent systems away from those physical interactions. Influenced by them, yes, but not entirely controlled. Further, I know people who would argue that your definition of perfection is a little askew... for many people, even an idea that doesn't correspond to the physical world is the perfect idea for them to be thinking just then.

It's all about how you look at things!

Answer 3

On the contrary, the self-assembly of proteins and other molecules and the self-replication of DNA (with protein enzyme assistance) is extremely flawed and stochastic at best. There are always numerous ways for a chemical reaction to occur, and all outcomes will be represented to a greater or lesser degree. All that is necessary for life to continue is for the desirable outcome to dominate, the undesirable outcomes to be at a manageable level, and the neutral outcomes to be a minimal nuisance. And to be able to repair the damage caused by less-than-optimal outcomes.

Entropy alone is enough to ensure that no system is perfect. Added to this are effects of background radiation, environmental agents or inconsistencies, and explicit attack from other systems (viral infection, for instance). And there are examples of randomness by design: during development of cells that produce antibodies, for example, there are DNA sites that are especially prone to mutation during development itself, and that are randomly splices, in order to ensure that all possible antibody molecules can be made when needed.

To extend the argument, in order to have the "correct" thoughts, ideas, concepts and theories out there when needed, we need to be generate a variety of all of these, then pick among them. And before we have enough data, we can't say which is erroneous and which is not.

Answer 4

first off the 'particle' of our bodies do make mistakes. Think cancer.

There are so many variables in the vastness of our universe that it's impossible for a mere human to know everything. We have a very limited lifespan which in turn does not allow us to learn everything needed to make correct decisions. We're conditioned from birth to function within our limited biosphere environment. Our life experiences often dictate how we deal with questions that inevitably arise during our lifetimes.

Don't forget that we are also 'animals' and often do what is necessary to allow continued survival of ourselves, our children, and ultimately our species. It's hard making all the correct decisions when we don't have foresight to determine whether or not the decisions we make are the 'correct' ones in the long run.

Answer 5

Your misunderstanding a lot here. To simplify things, think of your brain as a computer. It records what a person types, exactly as they type it. That doesn't make what they type perfect. And to be clear, the brain does make mistakes in forming parts. Sometimes I can drink enough to erase a whole night of memories.

Answer 6

Based on your premise nobody would be mentally or physically challenged etc. Delusions are a mental health issue and bottom line is that persons with schizoprenia, etc. often have that type of thinking (delusions that is). Bottom line is that the canons of science do not have the answers for those questions yet.

Answer 7

stunning proof of your own hypothesis