get rid of a yoke

Having to choose between freedom or a yoke, the untrained person will choose the yoke, every single time.

Usually, the brain will not recognize that the world is the same, with or without a restraint. It will treat the option as two different, unrelated, places. Thus the option for the yoke is the triggering of squiggle in the brain in charge of searching for caves.

Incidentally, that’s why often people will claim to believe in ideas that they continuously act in opposition to: Understanding has not kicked in, just pathfinding.

The risk of that is that every regularity can be exploited.

new answer

That the current answer is wrong does not mean that some other contrary is right.

If you pay enough attention to the world, you’ll see all kinds of action and discourse that purport to be self-motivated and critical, but are actually just driven by a gut feeling that «this is wrong!».

the place for blind faith

Walking around Ica i came to realize that we despise religions mostly for their blind faith, but that, at the same time, it’s neither possible or desirable to get rid of blind faith. Again: not desirable.

It’s just too easy to find gruesome examples of blind faith, but there is also another dimension to it. We need blind faith — or something like it — to make us strong and beautiful. It’s a matter of pedagogy, and of politics.

belief::aphorisms

§ A belief ain’t a basic unit of cognition. It is a unit of one kind of behaviour, one kind amongst many.

§ Beliefs are related to memories, but there are important differences.

§ The number of new ideas you can have increases with each new idea you have.

§ A good translation for “belief” is “what you hold dear”.