Sublime

One of the most incomprehensible features of a crowd is the tenacity with which the members adhere to erroneous assumptions despite mounting evidence to challenge them.

Maybe we have created the idea of genius to serve our own attraction to badness.

Bergson argued that the brain is an ‘organ for survival’, and that its function was essentially eliminative. Its job is to filter out stimuli and information that isn’t essential to dealing with the necessities of existence, and stop it from reaching consciousness; this means 90% of reality. (We know now that it is the left brain that performs this

He will also be susceptible to the classic correspondence bias: everything negative about Mary will be seen as a result of external circumstances—stress, strain, bad luck, whatever it may be—and everything positive of her character.

(Herbert Simon said it best: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”)

Your mind hides most of your thinking so you can get on with life. Furthermore, you’re too close to yourself. You can’t see the models you use to perceive the world because you’re seeing with them.