{"id":1684,"date":"2019-05-18T08:14:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T08:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2019-06-15T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T20:30:10","slug":"other-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/general-insights\/other-consequences","title":{"rendered":"Other Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

One throws a heavy ball into the air and says: \u201cLook, I made the ball lighter!\u201d Then it falls on one\u2019s head or worse: on someone else\u2019s. This way, one knows there are other consequences.<\/h3>\n

What\u2019s in your mind?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Serial processing: one thing after another, like one long and structured sentence. This is not real.<\/p>\n

Parallel processing: (very) many things are happening together, of which a few are conscious. This is real. [see: \u201cHuman Brain: Giant Pattern Recognizer<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

Making this distinction has consequences. Not making it has other consequences<\/strong>, of which also (very) many important ones.<\/p>\n

Many people are shortsighted<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

not knowing or caring for any consequences apart from what happens in a straightforward way. Evolutionarily, one can see in this the always present need for an animal\u2019s survival. Instincts are pre-dispositions that enable the animal to surpass this immediate need, although in quite inflexible ways. They are one step in a long evolution.<\/p>\n

We, humans, have \u2018instincts-between-brackets\u2019 in much more flexible ways, due to the size of our brain and the way we use our many neurons. It comes at a cost but at least, flexibility is the reward.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, we are drawn to what is \u2018cognitively straightforward\u2019, frequently valuing direct consequences (the ball goes up) much more than less direct consequences (the ball comes down again).<\/p>\n

Ever more<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What happens: people run and run in a seemingly straightforward direction, investing a lot of effort and resources. Thus, it becomes ever harder to even think that it might be the wrong direction. This, of course, doesn\u2019t diminish the other consequences.<\/p>\n

Even more so when it\u2019s done in a group.<\/p>\n

Other consequences<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

are mainly related to nonconscious processing, which is of course in the human world: everything. Consequences are immense and present in many domains. Reading AURELIS-blogs may give you some idea.<\/p>\n

It is striking though how little interest there generally is for even huge consequences \u2018outside of the box.\u2019 As if many people \u2013 including those who should be interested, say: because of their profession \u2013 in the end just don\u2019t \u2018care\u2019 for other consequences, depending on the \u2018other-ness\u2019. Things that fall out of the customary box really do so\u2026 completely.<\/p>\n

Even if invisible to the blind, other consequences are real.<\/p>\n

Is that bad?<\/p>\n

An example of \u2018other consequence\u2019 is health at long term. Psychosomatic symptoms mainly ask for positive, real, deep, meaningful attention [see: \u201cdeep attention\u201d]. Trying to \u2018kill the symptom\u2019 \u2013 as in \u2018painkiller\u2019 and almost all medication starting with \u2018anti\u2019 \u2013 is hardly such kind of attention. \u2018Other consequences\u2019 in such cases are quite different from the directly observable ones.<\/p>\n

Care<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that many people plainly don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t see. They are not looking. Thus, they don\u2019t see that they should care.<\/p>\n

This is a vicious circle. It doesn\u2019t end by itself. What to do? One can analyze and keep analyzing and get stuck into\u2026<\/p>\n

analysis paralysis.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not ideal.<\/p>\n

But if one would otherwise run into the wrong direction, then may paralysis be the better solution?<\/p>\n

Of course, you don\u2019t need to think of this all day long. But: taking it explicitly into account now and then would already make a different you, a different world, a different future.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably one of the most important choices.<\/p>\n

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