Monday, January 18, 2016
Confident Ignorance - Luck of Control - Absentminded
My exercise funny on the publications of findings on the three different types of stupidity
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/psychologists-reveal-the-three-different-types-of-stupidity-a6782796.html
According to the article, a person performing an act out of 'confident ignorance' and in cases named a ‘heroic act’, is foolish. Of course, we have seen heroic acts involving a high degree of impulse, not considering personal safety or survival and betting wildly into the possibilities and unknown factors.
A result of ‘confident ignorance’ means leaping into the unknown, because the person cannot be sure for the results of her/his actions. Can such cases also be named daring? Examples: A father jumping into a burning house to save his children from fire, a soldier signing up knowing he might lose his/r life, a gambler who knows he might lose everything, a Wall-Streeter, an entrepreneur who chooses his workers based on a momentum impulse, or someone applying for a job not having enough qualifications or credential. Hmmm… Isn’t the makeup of our society? Going further, if the acts of such a person result to the destruction of many and the person goes to court, how 'confident ignorance' is treated? Stands enough to relieve from responsibility? Given the fact that if stupidity is the way things are perceived, either out of neurological damage or out of ideology.
The second category of foolish behavior ‘lack of control’ results from obsessive behavior, according to the study. Isn’t it about the personal beliefs and ideology that also shape an obsessive behavior or psychological makeup or an issue with neurology? Is this what a person perceives standing as true and correct.
The third category calls on the absentmindedness, which invokes forgetfulness, inattentiveness, not been able to focus. Is it possible these characteristics to stem from neurological impairments? Who can refuse another one element against personal responsibility, if proved so?
Well, the machine is programmed to act in a very predictable way. No confident ignorance, no lack of control, no absentmindedness. Progressing studies on artificial intelligence and robots to express feelings is another step closer to make the machine human, or the other way around?
The study weights more into, “Studying why and when people call certain actions stupid should be the interest of psychological investigations not just because it is a frequent everyday behavior, but also because it is a robust behavioral reflection of the rationalistic expectations to which people adjust their own behavior and expect others to'. Of course, I don’t have the certain stories given to the students and the altered content so, this is a light writing or a ‘broken phone’ or a random act to enrich LinkedIn revenue, if I had posted there.
So, prudence calls to hear it, straight from the horse’s mouth, which you will have to find and that’s that.
ikamada
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