Our mind contains representations (perfect/imperfect) of the world. When someone is able to understand and control their mind, it is said they can understand and conquer the world (in spirituality).
Why so?
Probably pico-economics has an answer. It describes self has conflicting sub-selves with conflicting goals.
Did you ever wonder on what to do next and were stuck between different conflicting choices? What was going on in your head at that time? There was a battle between parts of you who wanted different things. The fitness freak self probably wanted to go to gym in evening, social self wanted to hang-out with friends, workaholic self wanted to just work on the project, nerd self wanted to read a book/article or explorer self who wanted to visit a new place? What did you act on? Probably the self that won in the conflict: maybe the one that was most aligned with your current goals (maybe you decided to loose weight and prioritised fitness-freak self's suggestion). But who decided your goals? was it you or a coalition of your selves who gave different suggestions on which goals to prioritise? did your goals change over time? You wanted to become an astronaut in childhood and now want to do X, 2 years later you decided to do Y, become Z.
So, can it be said that we consist of evolving selves who are in constant battle with each other and the one that wins governs our next actions. Once we take those actions, based on the reward we get, our sub-selves who prove that their suggested goals and actions are more aligned maybe in terms of better reward (internal or external)) are acted upon and drive our goal setting. Maybe our goals are a mix of different goals of these sub-selves.
Now coming to groups of individuals (be it family, friends, nations, globe), they have conflicting goals as well. Whose goals get chosen? it it an amalgam of goals based on whose arguments (or action's rewards) were more convincing towards benefitting the group or being more aligned with groups values?
If someone understands how mechanisms work inside their heads for resolving conflicts, can they use similar mechanisms for understanding the ones behind nations?
Any thoughts?
(I will develop this blog later for completion or put forth a follow-up post)
Our mind contains representations (perfect/imperfect) of the world. When someone is able to understand and control their mind, it is said they can understand and conquer the world (in spirituality).
Why so?
Probably pico-economics has an answer. It describes self has conflicting sub-selves with conflicting goals.
Did you ever wonder on what to do next and were stuck between different conflicting choices? What was going on in your head at that time?
There was a battle between parts of you who wanted different things. The fitness freak self probably wanted to go to gym in evening, social self wanted to hang-out with friends, workaholic self wanted to just work on the project, nerd self wanted to read a book/article or explorer self who wanted to visit a new place? What did you act on? Probably the self that won in the conflict: maybe the one that was most aligned with your current goals (maybe you decided to loose weight and prioritised fitness-freak self's suggestion). But who decided your goals? was it you or a coalition of your selves who gave different suggestions on which goals to prioritise? did your goals change over time? You wanted to become an astronaut in childhood and now want to do X, 2 years later you decided to do Y, become Z.
So, can it be said that we consist of evolving selves who are in constant battle with each other and the one that wins governs our next actions. Once we take those actions, based on the reward we get, our sub-selves who prove that their suggested goals and actions are more aligned maybe in terms of better reward (internal or external)) are acted upon and drive our goal setting. Maybe our goals are a mix of different goals of these sub-selves.
Now coming to groups of individuals (be it family, friends, nations, globe), they have conflicting goals as well. Whose goals get chosen? it it an amalgam of goals based on whose arguments (or action's rewards) were more convincing towards benefitting the group or being more aligned with groups values?
If someone understands how mechanisms work inside their heads for resolving conflicts, can they use similar mechanisms for understanding the ones behind nations?
Any thoughts?
(I will develop this blog later for completion or put forth a follow-up post)