Why Reason is Treason in Democratic Elections
To a Computational Cognitive Scientist It’s Obvious
The human brain, the trillions of compute engines working in near perfect harmony in real time between your ears, is just not set up for Reason. It isn’t. Get over it. Reason is Treason in maintaining a Democracy just like it is in maintaining a Dictatorship.
Your brain is actually an old, old, system, on the order of 500 million years old, that operates to guess what Reason might, or might not, justify.
It’s a probability engine that only knows what our DNA or our personal experience can know.
And, in both cases, while that is an unbelievably huge amount of information about how to survive in reality in real time, it just makes the vast, vast, amounts of its conscious decisions, in the billions of subconscious and conscious decisions a second, orchestrated to the speeds needed by reality.
Most often just the most recent ‘knowledge’ can overcome all reasonable knowledge, all knowledge of actual truth, because we just can’t recruit reasoned truth that fast. Sometimes it takes minutes, sometimes days, and sometimes much longer. The brain guesses most all the time and rarely has the luxury of the time it takes to make a reasoned decision.
