Thanks for your well-balanced comment. Yes, we do need thinking, sometimes formal logical thinking. But, it easily becomes " a fine servant and a terrible master". A superb quote. As well as the one by Sheldon Kopp. Our culture is prone to "infoxication". Perhaps Barry Schwartz has shown an aspect of this in his Paradox of Choice. And, also from a "non-spiritual" starting point and methodology, Kahneman approaches the riddle of thinking, memories, the decision-making self and the perception of happiness in his much praised Thinking, fast and slow. In sum: our culture tends to regard sheer rational thinking, based on plentiful "hard" , measurable data, as superior and more reliable than intuitive, non verifiable insights which carry a hint of non-verifiable feeling. Which brings up Huston Smith's criticism of the epistemological bias of "scientism" that has been berating all things metaphysical for the last 300 years.
On Dec 3, 2013 Carlos Eduardo wrote :
Thanks for your well-balanced comment. Yes, we do need thinking, sometimes formal logical thinking. But, it easily becomes " a fine servant and a terrible master". A superb quote. As well as the one by Sheldon Kopp. Our culture is prone to "infoxication". Perhaps Barry Schwartz has shown an aspect of this in his Paradox of Choice. And, also from a "non-spiritual" starting point and methodology, Kahneman approaches the riddle of thinking, memories, the decision-making self and the perception of happiness in his much praised Thinking, fast and slow. In sum: our culture tends to regard sheer rational thinking, based on plentiful "hard" , measurable data, as superior and more reliable than intuitive, non verifiable insights which carry a hint of non-verifiable feeling. Which brings up Huston Smith's criticism of the epistemological bias of "scientism" that has been berating all things metaphysical for the last 300 years.