#mind #rationality #epistemology # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Related - [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] - [[Truth is a Pathless Land]] - [[Jiddu Krishnamurti - Total Freedom_ the Essential Krishnamurti]] - [[No mind]] - [[George Orwell]] # Independent thinking  >For a personality to be possible, timely isolation and the necessity for an existence of offence and defence, are prerequisites >~ [[Nietzsche]]  >The idea is the result of the thought process, the thought process is the response of memory, and memory is always conditioned. Memory is always in the past, and that memory is given life in the present by a challenge. Memory has no life in itself; it comes to life in the present when confronted by a challenge. And all memory, whether dormant or active, is conditioned, is it not? Therefore there has to be quite a different approach. You have to find out for yourself, inwardly, whether you are acting on an idea, and if there can be action without ideation. >~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]]  >Most people are afraid to stand alone; they are afraid to think things out for themselves, afraid to feel deeply, to explore and discover the whole meaning of life. Therefore they say they love God, and they depend on what they call God; but it is not God, the unknown, it is a thing created by the mind. >~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]]  >There is no love in your heart when you depend on society, in the sense that you accept the structure of society as it is, without question. >~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]] ![[11da289b-5ece-4c8b-8f5c-10e54f3bfecb-0-1248294111.png]] >The mind conforms, imitates, because there is more security in conformity, in following a pattern. >~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-19 09.52.52 - Man trying to reach the truth on top of the mountain, but there is no way, digital art.png]] >I maintain that [[Truth is a Pathless Land|Truth is a pathless land]], and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. >~ [[Krishnamurti]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-19 09.53.51 - Man trying to reach the truth on top of the mountain, but there is no way, digital art.png]] >Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained. >~ [[Feynman]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-19 09.53.45 - Man trying to reach the truth on top of the mountain, but there is no way, digital art.png]] >Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?" >~ [[Feynman]] >There is no authority who decides what is a good idea. >~ [[Feynman]] >When you see the significance of environment, it means drastic action, a tremendous upheaval in your life, a complete, revolutionary change of ideas, in which there is **no authority, no imitation**. >~ [[Krishnamurti]] >It might seem easier to go through life as the echo—but only until the other guy plays a wrong note. >~ [[Warren Buffett]] >What I want for myself is your approval, and to get it I will most likely do what you think I should do. ~ [[Robert Solomon]] Independent thinking require: - [[Via Negativa|Inverse model]]: expose yourself to less [[Information|information]] and of higher quality ([[Philosophy/Mind/Mental Model/Lindy Effect|Lindy-proof]] content such as books) - people around you are independent thinkers? - [[Writing]] or similar way to trigger [[Thinking]] such as walking and conversations (using [[Langa 😛]]), have a second brain - [[Think week]] - [[Unwash your brain]] - Unlearning what has been taught at school - High [[Skepticism|skepticism]] and [[Empiricism|empiricism]] - Ignore society >One must still have chaos within, in order to give birth to a dancing star >~ [[Nietzsche]] >Flutists and harpists do not adjust their melody or rhythm according to the taste of the multitude, they base it on what suits themselves. Why, then, should the wise man, who is the practitioner of a far greater art, follow the pleasure of the crowd, instead of pursuing the truth without regard to popular pressures? >~ [[Cicero]] ## Business [[Marc Andreessen]] is really interesting to listen to because he has a clear vision of the present and future of business and understand what will happen. Most people are so short-term minded, doesn't see the big changes incoming which leads in building things that will just die