"Since the advent of the nuclear age, everything has changed but the way people think, thus, we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
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Edgar Morin summarizes that such a [necessary] reform in thinking, implies a mental revolution "of considerably greater proportions than the Copernican revolution."
Morin reminds us that, whether we realize it or not, problems are spatially and temporally interdependent; therefore, only a complex kind of thinking - which he also describes as a nonlinear understanding of cause and effect - as well as holographic, recursive, and dialogic - "can deal with the inseparability of problems in which each depends on the other."
This "mental revolution" involves expanding our awareness - specifically becoming more aware of our thinking and of our awareness itself. Cognitive psychologists have recently discovered that the brain organizes perceptions into "schemas" - packets of information into which the mind stores data. Schemas not only determine what we will notice; they also can determine what we do not notice. This immediately leads us to the concepts of frames, frameworks or paradigms.
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Most people seem to believe that their human nervous system provides direct access to objective reality, i.e., "to truth," but this is hardly the case. Robert Anton Wilson's similar premise is that everything we think we know about the world is in fact an interpretation: that all information is necessarily filtered through our senses, past experience, conditioning, prior beliefs, and other non-objective lenses.
Thus, each of our individual worldviews can be considered a "reality tunnel" - a term Wilson borrowed from Timothy Leary. Wilson emphasized that each person's reality tunnel is their own artistic creation, whether or not they recognize it as such. We tend to relate to the world from our reality tunnels, rather than to them. He describes a "Reality Tunnel" as a subconscious set of mental filters, such that every individual interprets the world differently.
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