We must accept that the human body is equipped with very poor measurement instruments in the form of eyes and ears, etc. Fortunately, the human brain is exceptionally powerful in compensating for this poor signal quality. If you doubt this, please let me know and I can provide you with some experiments to prove how your brain fills in the missing information and vainly attempts to correct for errors in measurement (negative feedback if you prefer). The downside is that this correction process is so automatic that we grow to ignore it and some would even deny it exists. As our measurement instruments age or we suffer from mental illnesses the brain must apply even more corrections and the overworked brain is further stressed. In order to maintain the self esteem required to prevent breakdown the conscious mind often compensates for incorrect information by externalizing the sources of the errors. In other words blaming the world for ones ever increasing biological shortcomings, inflating the ego, and convincing oneself that the rest of the world is wrong, deaf, stupid, or whatever. |
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