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is this the reason of all that wishful thinking, daydreaming and delusional

2007-06-04 16:58:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Yes, people want something to believe in.

2007-06-04 17:02:02 · answer #1 · answered by Always Curious 7 · 0 1

The article at the link below addresses political ideas, but the research findings are not limited to politics. It's pretty interesting.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=000CE155-1061-1493-906183414B7F0162

"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion ... draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises ... in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate. " -- Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620

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"We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," Westen is quoted as saying in an Emory University press release. "What we saw instead was a network of emotion circuits lighting up, including circuits hypothesized to be involved in regulating emotion, and circuits known to be involved in resolving conflicts." Interestingly, neural circuits engaged in rewarding selective behaviors were activated. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones," Westen said.

The implications of the findings reach far beyond politics. A jury assessing evidence against a defendant, a CEO evaluating information about a company or a scientist weighing data in favor of a theory will undergo the same cognitive process. What can we do about it?

In science we have built-in self-correcting machinery. Strict double-blind controls are required in experiments, in which neither the subjects nor the experimenters know the experimental conditions during the data-collection phase. Results are vetted at professional conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. Research must be replicated in other laboratories unaffiliated with the original researcher. Disconfirmatory evidence, as well as contradictory interpretations of the data, must be included in the paper. Colleagues are rewarded for being skeptical. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

2007-06-04 17:14:10 · answer #2 · answered by YY4Me 7 · 0 0

Yes people are in Maya (illusion) the material energy of God is very powerful. People should understand that this world is not our real home and aspire to get out of this place at the end of life. What ever one contemplates at the time of death they are sure to attain. We have to give up our attachments and misconceptions by the time of our death or we will take birth again in the material world. For info on karma and reincarnation read Bhagavad Gita as it is By BHaktivedanta Prabhupada- tells how. go to harekrishnatemple.com I love it.

2007-06-04 17:05:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If people weren't attached to ideas, then Newton would never have experimented to find his theories. If Eddison, Ben Franklin, A. Graham Bell, Aristotle, Sophocles, Einstein, Freud, etc had never day dramed, never had wishful thoughts, and never had visions of what was considered "delusional" for it's time, then we would not have half the things we do today, and not know half of what we know.

2007-06-04 17:03:34 · answer #4 · answered by janicajayne 7 · 0 1

Obviously, if you are attached to an idea, it is for a reason. You don't just become "attached" , takes a bit of history, a bit of time. Not unreasonable to think it would take time, and a very strong reason, to become un-attached. I'm afraid posts in YA is not a good enough reason.

2007-06-04 17:04:52 · answer #5 · answered by =42 6 · 0 0

We all reach out for the best idea so that we don't end up wishful thing, daydreaming or delusional.
http://www.carm.org/doctrine/100truths.htm

2007-06-05 07:39:54 · answer #6 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0 0

yes. people are very, very fond of their ideas, daydreams and delusions.

that's why people who make reasoned argument (against those deeply held ideas) are always so despised.

2007-06-04 17:02:39 · answer #7 · answered by hot.turkey 5 · 1 1

Yes. People will believe anything because they want it to be true.

2007-06-04 17:01:33 · answer #8 · answered by hyungbinkim 3 · 1 1

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