Synthisophy 527 

Lesson 11: Side Light 3, Chapters 22 + 23:
Side Light 3, Fantasyland, Fantasy Becomes Reality


Watch the Side Light 3 video:
http://www.synthisophy.com/side-light-3.html
Question your perception - restate, discuss.


Watch Part 1 of the Fantasyland video:
http://www.synthisophy.com/22-fantasyland.html

What do you think of these statements about the settlement of the new world? 

What do you think of early religion in the Northern colonies?

Any interesting observations from http://www.synthisophy.com/22-fantasyland-2.html

Any interesting observations from http://www.synthisophy.com/22-fantasyland-3.html


Watch Part 2 of Fantasyland video: 
http://www.synthisophy.com/22-fantasyland.html

Questions, comments? Let's call 2000, the first year a majority of Americans were online, the unequivocal first year of full Fantasyland.

Fantasyland has been the norm for the run of humanity; the unusually rational and scientific centuries here and there along the way, like the last few, are exceptions. Dominant cultures have had their enlightenments and golden ages before, then returned to primitivism and murk.

Where will go as a nation?


Watch Fantasy Has Become Reality video:
http://www.synthisophy.com/23-fantasy-to-reality.html

In the extraordinarily complex society of today, the instinctive cognitive bias, the resulting confirmation bias, that generated the argumentative theory and the tribal ethos, that then lead by extension to the warrior ethos, may all very well be present in the 100 billion neurons in your brain helping to generate one’s perception of reality, one’s neuroreality. And as proposed by Andersen in Fantasyland, that neuroreality may not reflect true reality. It’s in our genes. Our perception of reality, our neuroreality, has been in our genes since the advent of Australopithecus and cognitive bias 4 million years ago or perhaps much earlier, to Homo habilis and confirmation bias 3 million years ago, to Homo erectus and the argumentative theory 2 million years ago, all the while from there generating the tribal ethos resulting in the warrior ethos that lead to Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago and their migration out of Africa 70,000 years ago, and to us today.

 

If time, break into groups of 4 for political discussion. Talk about what we covered here today, then talk about any political issues you think are important.  Use the listening skills we discussed.

 

Have someone in each group provide a summary of what they discussed and iews expressed.

 

Paper #6 – due next week

What do you think about Andersen’s last statement?:
Fantasyland has been the norm for the run of humanity; the unusually rational and scientific centuries here and there along the way, like the last few, are exceptions. Dominant cultures have had their enlightenments and golden ages before, then returned to primitivism and murk.

 

What do you think of the conclusion of Chapter 23: Fantasy Has Become Reality?:
In the extraordinarily complex society of today, the instinctive cognitive bias, the resulting confirmation bias, that generated the argumentative theory and the tribal ethos, that then lead by extension to the warrior ethos, may all very well be present in the 100 billion neurons in your brain helping to generate one’s perception of reality, one’s neuroreality. And as proposed by Andersen in Fantasyland, that neuroreality may not reflect true reality. It’s in our genes. Our perception of reality, our neuroreality, has been in our genes since the advent of Australopithecus and cognitive bias 4 million years ago or perhaps much earlier, to Homo habilis and confirmation bias 3 million years ago, to Homo erectus and the argumentative theory 2 million years ago, all the while from there generating the tribal ethos resulting in the warrior ethos that lead to Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago and their migration out of Africa 70,000 years ago, and to us today.