Abstract
Not to go for good or right or correct. Not to pursue claims that are proven and evidenced as such. To break free from the clutch of perceived good and evil, verified healthy and harmful.
You’ll still make decisions – but you won’t be mindful of time and society. You will be more mindful, for once in your life, of your own self. What you want, what you feel, what you sense, will matter more. Not what is hand-picked by others for you. Your very own personal life experiences will guide you through to you. Your own lived days will be the knowledge that you need to tailor your good and bad.
Limits to Reason
Let’s start with the definition. What is “Reason?”
According to google, here are : “A cause, explanation, justification for an action or event. The power of the mind to think, understand and form judgements logically.”
In my own words, reasoning involves us and our thinking process. It particularly involves our minds racing to think about all the things that can explain a situation/object. And when our grey matter come up with things that can explain something, we label them as “reasons” for why and/or how of a situation / object.
In other words, the “reasons” is what we find as have “made sense” of a situation/object. And making sense, as human nature has come to understand, is having an intellectual grasp of some situation/object. It is what we recognise as knowing about. Knowledge of something. And knowledge, without doubt, has almost always portrayed a positive aspect of society.
But can ‘reason’ have downsides? What if it does?
People differ from each other. Our thinking and reasoning processes can too. People can explain why and how to an exact same situation but in very contrasting way.
For instance the shivering of human body when febrile (higher than normal body temperature). Two explanations for this phenomena.
A) When body shivers, it seeks, like in usual frosty conditions, more clothing onto itself. Additional layers of cloth causes body to perspire eventually giving body the much needed cool off.
B) the shiver is the body trembling. This action, the shaking and quivering, makes the body active (as though exercising)and therefore generate heat for perspiration and cool off. Also the body is already febrile so removing layers of clothing, adding to the shiver, is helpful for the return to normal temperature.
Another situation relates to the raising of heart beat when exercising. Is exercise a good thing?
A) Heart is a muscle. The rise and fall of heart beat (exercise) keeps that muscle healthy and strong.
B) Human body has only finite number of heart beats. Raising beats for short periods of time decreases that overall amount, therefore shortening life span.
These theories were published in magazines. Today we have different sources come up with numerous reasons to explain and educate upon similar if not exact same situations. Social media sites, google, youtube, academic journals are full of research and evidence based theories. There is no lack of explanations in our modern world today. When we do find some plausible, justifiable explanation to something, the next moment we stumble on another contrary explanation.
There is no lack of it. And so much that a situation / object sorted, done and dusted, appears susceptible to be resorted, again and again. Continue into infinity.
Because reasoning are derived from various factors : perception, experience, studies, theories, culture, business etc, it has no stance of its own and can go either or several different ways. Ultimately societies choose what they take or leave, with its share of dissent, and a new opportunity for wrecking minds to explain disagreements – spinning another cycle of reasoning.
Such repetitive approach can take away the time and energy that we could utilise elsewhere. One response is to abandon it altogether. Not to go for good or right or correct. Not to pursue claims that are proven and evidenced as such. To break free from the clutch of perceived good and evil, verified healthy and harmful.
You’ll still make decisions – but you won’t be mindful of time and society. You will be more mindful, for once in your life, of your own self. What you want, what you feel, what you sense, will matter more. Not what is hand-picked by others for you. Your very own personal life experiences will guide you through to you. Your own lived days will be the knowledge that you need to tailor your good and bad.
The reasoning, the explanation and justification will come thereafter. And these will be the most appropriate without room for uncertainty. Because the process is now not about mere thought and thinking, but about your self to you.
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