We must question and understand what we “believe” in order to begin the process of becoming a fair-minded thinker, the very heart of Critical Thinking.
- What is fairness?
All’s fair in love and war.
- Is everything that is legal also fair?
- Why is fairness important?
- What is a fair minded thinker?
What means do we have to discover, to criticize, and to modify our biases, our prejudices, and our views that guide our everyday performance in the world?
If we look at the Metaphor we use in everyday speak about Equality issues?
Think that in order to study our speaking is a guide to the manner in which our unconscious is structured.
Our speaking the words we use can indicate the nature of the ideas that we have. Speech is a guide to the structure of our views held by us as people, which is the product of our past experiences and understanding, which in many cases is the result of many unconscious developments.
There's actually a cut off between things like 'metaphor' and intelligence.
The character portrayed in the movie 'rain-man' of Raymond Babbit (by actor Dustin Hoffman) was a man who could rattle off basically anything memory wise (phone book like) but if you said ‘get a hold of yourself’ he would grab his shirt.
I don't recall the name of the particular region responsible for extract the meaning behind metaphor, but its different from the brain regions responsible for memory and math.
The brain draws associations between all sensory systems that are why music moves us in movies. The thud of a boom excites hair cells in our ear in the same way a jagged shape or instant picture might excite shape cells in vision assign regions. The brain is an abstract artist, so metaphor is really picking up on that and it does have a brain biological basis just like art and music, which is beginning to be explored.
As for fairness, you can only really investigate the question when you perform studies, and patients with brain injury will make odd moral decisions, like seeing it as 'fair' to kill his sister to save 2 other strangers, most people won't do this, but this person might have some detachment relating to emotion.
There's a lot of interesting stuff if you’re interested in ethics (fairness) and the brain a guy named Joshua Green studies the relation for a living.
We use such metaphorical expressions as: Tomorrow is a big day. I’m feeling up today. We’ve been close for years, but we’re beginning to drift apart. It is smooth sailing from here on in. It has been uphill all the way. Get off my back. We are moving ahead. He’s a dirty old man. That was a disgusting thing to do. I’m not myself today. He is afraid to reveal his inner self. You need to be kind to yourself.
All of us use metaphors constantly and we all recognize the meaning of these metaphors when others speak them. This leads me to the inference that our everyday speech is a means for insight into our understanding of what we really believe. Most of these metaphors can be a guide to what our unconscious has stored up in our brain regarding the nature of reality. These metaphors can guide us into an understanding of where we are and perhaps why we are there (notice all the metaphors I use in trying to convey my general ideas). Metaphors provide insight to the self.
- What do you think?
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