I have played with this idea in my head for more than 15 years. I guess it is finally time for it to be made public. I am calling it "My Original Blackbox" theory.
The human mind dislikes uncertainty of any kind. When it does not know what is happening or how something works, it uses its powerful imagination to come up with a theory that makes "sense" to it. What kind of theory would make sense to the average mind. Well, it has to be a theory that does not threaten the "ego", "feels" safe, and actually feeds the ego and helps the ego achieve some underlying, secret purpose that is so secret that even the mind does not know it.
Of course all faulty theories are not ego driven but certainly can be called "convenient."
Any system whose inner workings are not immediately obvious or visible is a blackbox. We know that something goes in and something comes out but we don't know what exactly happens inside. For instance, we eat food and process it in our bodies and we get an output of energy and some waste products. How many people realize or are aware that the body actually needs to do work on the food we eat in order to produce energy from it. Due to this lack of awareness, we consider everything on the restuarant menu to be food. Once we become aware that certain foods require the body to do more work on them and are not really very "efficient" in energy terms that concept then becomes a guide to choosing foods. Foods that have the highest moisture content require the least amount of work to be done by the body. Thus eat more of such foods.
More to come....
Original Mind
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