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Understanding how the mind works is one of the most important concepts for every human to learn about. Knowing how the mind works helps people to predict the process of thinking for themselves and others and identify to phalacies of our thoughts and of others. If we are able to understand our own minds it enables us to find out what is true and finding out truth is a major part of being human. Trying to comprhend the thing that allows us to comprhend is a very difficult task and concept. How can we out think our own minds if we use them to out think itself? This is not rational and does not make very much sense but asking this question is the start of understanding our mind. The start of finding truth is just learning how humans reason, think and think they know. The mind is affected by so many different peices of information that it is impossible to consider every thing that effects the mind, but we can understand the basic general idea of what effects our thought process.
1) Understanding the mind-how understanding can improve the our knowledge of the truth and falsehoods we think and know.
2) 5 Errors in thinking- It helps to understand errors in thinking which can help you point out to others their wrongs in arguments and improve your arguments to better convey your ideas to others.
3) Epistomology- The study of knowledge itself is the basis for which we understand everything. What is knowing and how can we know? It includes the 5 steps to critical thinking and 5 steps to knowing.
What errors do I exhibit in my own thinking? How can I better understand my thought process?
Understanding the mind and how people think enables me to see the falsehoods in my own life and helps me to correct them. I might know that my ideas are wrong but if I don't know why they are wrong I would never change them, so knowing why I think falsehoods enables me to overcome them. |
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