Human Brilliance is partly over-confidence, the ability to make and tolerate mistakes, and the ability to believe things the evidence doesn't support. Computers still just crunch the numbers, and are just starting to learn to learn. For the first few years of our lives, we are thrown into a confusing world that just carries on regardless. Without us knowing the rules. We just have to catch up.
Our magic is Self-Hypnosis. We all live in constructed realities based partly on the genuine rules of the universe, but mostly on our interpretation of those rules and how they have worked out for us. Repeated trial and error until our self-delusion that we understand kicks in. Till we 'crack the code' and see the underlying pattern.
Patterns are simplifications. There are patterns in everything. We attribute meaning to those patterns. Cause and Effect. If we get the pattern and know what reliably follows an action, we don't need to know anything more. Even if the story we tell ourselves about it is 'wrong'. Even if there are lots of unnecessary bits to our story.
Our leaders are typically the best at pretending they understand. The best at falsely projecting confidence. Through trial and error, we have learnt to follow those who appear to know what they are doing. The strongest. The loudest. The fastest.
Beautiful messy creatures. Full of emotion, frustration, desires, dreams, and alternative realities. Bumping into a world that just carries on regardless.
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