Common Sense Voices

[coberst]

Common Sense Voices

I claim that one cannot enter, for the first time, into the territory of some domains of knowledge while listening to common sense voices. Our common sense will immediately reject some facts because those facts are contrary to common sense.

You must still these instinctive reactions because common sense knows nothing about many things. The physicist must still her common sense reaction at the results of some experiments regarding the inner working of the atom.

The inner working of human nature can be as mysterious to common sense as is the inner reality of the atom.

We can see only what we are prepared to see. Common sense does not prepare us to see many things. We have to creep up on certain matters and withhold judgment until we are intellectually sophisticated enough to judge their reality.

[Nomad]

Common sense voices are an essential tool in our over all survival.

For example a tiger appears and is poised to pounce upon you.

Your fight or flight mode immediately kicks in, your pulse races you either crouch or run, your focus is mega intense etc. Shortly after your sudden awareness of the dangerous situation, you find yourself presented with the ability to choose to fight or run. The first phase is automatic, the second phase less so but the common sense voice will tell you I dont have a chance so run. You didnt really have to formulate that thought, it was natural.

It comes from your ancestors, the voice is a part of our genetic makeup, an inbred part of our being that exists to protect us.

[coberst]

Common sense—the unreflective opinions of ordinary people