Reading about philosophy can be confusing at times. Every time I try to read some deep philosophical thing my mind ends up being confused and tangled in a complex mess of thoughts that I completely forget what was I reading in the first place. Need for deliberate practice aside, now you know when someone think that everyone else should think similar to what he or she thinks, there’s a name for it. “… a change between age three and five, as kids learn to understand that somebody else can have beliefs that are different from their own.” As the TED talk shows, this is part of our growing up process. If responsible adults having the power to make decisions affecting millions of people behave or talk without understanding this, which suppose to be part of everyone’s journey to adulthood, solution can be uttered in just four words. Grow the fuck up.
Other minds problem
February 12, 2010