Symbolic Forest

Yesterday’s post about applying human assumptions to the rest of the universe set my mind off running down another tangent, about our tendency firstly to oversimplify the world, and secondly to insist on the validity of our oversimplified mental map of the world in the face of all the evidence that it is wrong.

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Keyword noise: heterochromia, eyes, assumptions, The Mother, teaching, evidence.

A random thought came to me the other day, about how we frame the world. How we conceive of the world, almost entirely around one particular mental framework: that the world and the universe operate in the same way as humans in general and ourselves in particular.

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Keyword noise: assumptions, selfishness, science fiction, mayflies, Ephemeroptera, sexual dimorphism, anthropology, structural anthropology.