Мystification. Traps in the human mind
I know that I know nothing © Socrates
Curiosity and mystification — stem from the physiology of the human brain. Evolutionarily, our brain is designed in such a way that it seeks to name and classify all objects and phenomena. This can be easily understood if you look at the children. For example, when a child learns to speak and he sees a new subject that interests him greatly. He will ask what it is called. There is no order in his brain, since there is an object, but there is no name. At the same time, it will classify items. It turns out that a big evil animal in the zoo and a small cute plush toy and many options for clumsy drawings can be combined under one name — a bear. This behavior is rewarded with joy hormones. This is the foundation of our brain physiology. For example, the biggest shock for me was the understanding of electronegativity in chemistry. I almost physically felt how many models in my head collapsed in a few seconds. And how the new general model was created. The reasons for the chemical properties of substances have become clearer. A different understanding of the periodic table of chemical elements arose. It became more clear what an atomic orbital is. And this despite the fact that both at school and at the university I understood physics and mathematics well, but I did not understand chemistry at all. For several days I was in euphoria. Telling everyone around how easy it is.
As a person grows up, he gains more and more knowledge. But at the same time, the sphere of the unknown is growing. And then the physiology of the brain starts to work. Anxiety arises. Discomfort occurs. Disorder, too much unknown. On the one hand, this led us to progress. This encourages us to engage in science. But, the sphere of ignorance is so great that not a single person in his life will be able to study and understand all this. And here, in order to improve our well-being and focus on a limited number of tasks, our ignorance must be turned into knowledge.
For complacency, our brain does an interesting trick. He mystifies all secondary knowledge. I have no idea how man came about, how animals came into being, and true knowledge of this will not help me much in my life — so I will assume that God created man and animals. I understand microbiology and the theory of evolution, but I do not know how the first single-celled organisms came into being, and this does not interfere with my life. This means that I can assume that other creatures that are not biological in nature actually created the first single-celled organisms. For example, I don’t know much about the processes taking place in the bowels of the stars. Now I can safely say that stars can be intelligent. And that they have a mind based on flows of magnetized plasma. After all, I also do not understand the processes occurring in a magnetized plasma, do I? Suddenly, stars create habitable planets and construct biological objects. Sounds nice!
But suddenly someone will tell me about the real processes taking place in the stars and refute my belief. Knowing or not knowing this in real life will not help me much. I will always find the perfect way out of this situation. After all, my knowledge of quantum physics also leaves much to be desired. Then I will say that the universe itself has intelligence. And that this mind is of a quantum nature. And it was the Universe that created the conditions for life and created biological life itself.
From what has been said, we can conclude that there is no need to be afraid of hoaxes. We must be afraid to have indestructible fences in our heads. Borders beyond which you cannot go. We must be able to perceive new information. And a place for mysticism will always be found.
