Probably some instinct that evolved over time.
I play poker for virtual money. I am almost a billionaire. There are people with trillions, so I am sort of poor.
When I catch someone bluffing, or play slow and fool someone, it makes really my day! I laugh, smile, chuckle.
American football, soccer, basketball, other sports. People go crazy.
Seems like we should be evolving out of such behavior. From a certain perspective, it seems very mean.
Various theories in physics stipulate that an infinitely small string or point vibrates and creates all things physical.
In my mind, if you vibrate a point or string at certain frequencies, you get symmetrical patterns. In the physical world, not everything is symmetrical.
So the vibration must be asymmetrical and still impart constructive information. Sounds like we are in a simulation? Could be. I was undecided before.
Played a part in stopping Trump from almost certain reelection.
Would be looked upon as Divine Intervention by many, if it weren't for all the death and suffering.
Few probably think about what America and the World would be like with Trump in a second term as President.
The conservative party in Korea has been acting like Trump for decades and have become even more emboldened watching Trump spout lies. Pretty sure the situation is the same the world over.
Used to drink very weak coffee, but surprisingly found out it was causing ulcers.
In the beginning (sounds like the Bible), there was no intelligence and it emerged?
Or there was intelligence and it started manifesting in the universe?
Intelligence, emotions and other factors begat cognitive dissonance and cognitive consonance?
Evolution-wise, or over time, there should be more people who are cognitively consonant than cognitively dissonant.
Due to democratic voting, changing a country's policies requires a majority. If the cognitively consonant control media and other private organizations, then a majority is not always needed.
If there were more cognitively consonant people, the world would be a much better and more logical place. Hope we are headed that way.
People today are a mix of contradictions. Were people meant to evolve into being more cognitively consonant?
Why do people and knowledge keep evolving into a "higher" state? Something like entropy? Maybe some effect or a type of energy that people have believed to be a God?
What is the percentage of people globally today who are cognitively consonant? Less than 1%?
It would be very hard to be 100% cognitively consonant.
What is the percentage of people globally today who are around 60% cognitively consonant? 10%?
Don't know and doubt that I will ever even if I took a long time to think about it.
It's illegal to not wear seat belts, smoke in public places, or drive drunk.
You rarely hear people argue about freedom in the above cases.
Wearing masks saves lives. Not doing so in a coronavirus pandemic endangers the person not wearing the mask and those around that person.
The people arguing that it is their right not to wear masks are most likely cognitively dissonant.
Be true or become cognitively dissonant.
Many years ago, someone wrote that quantum entanglement and wave-particle duality are probably examples of non-local dimensions.
Some physicists agree that quantum entanglement could be a non-local effect, The article below is lengthy, but towards the end, it is discussed.
Quanta: The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
Thoughts rule.
Also, people seem to fail to grasp the importance of cognitive dissonance. To me, it shouts that if one is not true, one can become crazy.
Example? Trump, he lies all the time.
Truth and conscience rule.
Are thoughts, truth, conscience, maybe even emotions related or connected to some force like a God?