^^ Not eliminate, I guess, but we overrate…whatever’s the opposite of intuition and instinct, whatever you want to call it; brains, objectivity, the neocortex, rationnality, the intellect… What can be experienced in a lab and expressed in objective terms. Meanwhile, we underrate instinct.
It us think things are easier to understand. Reassures us by giving a nice little instruction manual for art, emotions, interpersonal relationships, eating, childrens education, war…reassuring instructions, but simplistic ones.
Maybe nobody says they want to eliminate instincts, but we trust them less and less. They are looked down on. We don’t even trust our instincts to tell us what to eat!
^^ Not eliminate, I guess, but we overrate…whatever’s the opposite of intuition and instinct, whatever you want to call it; brains, objectivity, the neocortex, rationnality, the intellect… What can be experienced in a lab and expressed in objective terms. Meanwhile, we underrate instinct.
It us think things are easier to understand. Reassures us by giving a nice little instruction manual for art, emotions, interpersonal relationships, eating, childrens education, war…reassuring instructions, but simplistic ones.
Maybe nobody says they want to eliminate instincts, but we trust them less and less. They are looked down on. We don’t even trust our instincts to tell us what to eat!