Trivia
Last night I was going across some trivia on the net. Reading some of them was absolute fun.
One was,
“The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.”
I googled and look what I found http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/funfacts/monalisa.htm
Other was,
“Do you know Cats have no ability to taste sweet things?”
Following is the mix of what I read in series of web-pages with reference to second:
The tongue is covered with sensors called taste buds. Taste buds release nerve impulses to the brain when molecules of certain types make contact with them. The human tongue is capable of detecting four different types of flavor: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. (In contrast, some animals cannot taste these four. Cats, for example, cannot taste anything sweet.) Everything you taste, from chocolate cake to garlic bread, is a combination of these four flavors in varying proportions.
Mao Tse-Tung said, "All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience." This means that if we don't sense it ourself, it doesn't exist. Thus there are no black cats in coal cellars, no germs or bacteria, no moons around Mars, and no one we haven't met exists. There are very few people who would believe any of the above. Nonetheless, there is a problem. If we haven't sensed it, how could we possibly know about germs, bacteria, Martian moons and other people? The answer is: extrasomatic inputs.
These extrasomatic senses provide indirect impressions in three different ways: mechanical, associative and vicarious.
Mechanical is using some machines like microscope, telescope. It is not so interesting to know about. :-(
Associative sense is that which comes from association with others. These indirect impressions start coming in at birth and continue all our life. Association with other people provides us with language, attitudes about life, other people; in short, everything that allows us to function in any particular society.
Associative impressions often have the effect of direct impressions, becoming a part of our thinking without consciousness.
Some examples which I found were questions like: Can you remember learning your native language? Can you remember studying a foreign language? The former came through associative impression, the latter through vicarious (Includes printed material such as books and newspapers, films, video and audio tapes, and radio and television.).
Direct impression is like programming which starts from our childhood.
A school of thought says,
________
“The basis of programming is culture and upbringing. Your basic instructions on how to regard the world first come from your family. From birth your mother, father, and siblings consciously or unconsciously tell you what everything around you means in their terms. If they are deeply religious, you will be told that being deeply religious is the way to be. If they are bigots, they will tell you that their prejudices are the correct way to regard other people. They often do not tell you this in words but in their behavior and attitudes which you pick up and, since that is your model of behavior, imitate.
Most people accept such programming unquestioningly since Mother and Father say "that's it". What you receive are your family's a priori assumptions, which they received from their families, etc., until they arrive at you.”
________
Naturally, alterations appear in the programming. If they didn't, humans would still be in caves, eating what doesn't try or at least doesn't succeed in eating them first. People are capable of altering their own programming, although the "if it was good enough for grandma, it's good enough for me" attitude still exists in many.
One was,
“The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.”
I googled and look what I found http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/funfacts/monalisa.htm
Other was,
“Do you know Cats have no ability to taste sweet things?”
Following is the mix of what I read in series of web-pages with reference to second:
The tongue is covered with sensors called taste buds. Taste buds release nerve impulses to the brain when molecules of certain types make contact with them. The human tongue is capable of detecting four different types of flavor: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. (In contrast, some animals cannot taste these four. Cats, for example, cannot taste anything sweet.) Everything you taste, from chocolate cake to garlic bread, is a combination of these four flavors in varying proportions.
Mao Tse-Tung said, "All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience." This means that if we don't sense it ourself, it doesn't exist. Thus there are no black cats in coal cellars, no germs or bacteria, no moons around Mars, and no one we haven't met exists. There are very few people who would believe any of the above. Nonetheless, there is a problem. If we haven't sensed it, how could we possibly know about germs, bacteria, Martian moons and other people? The answer is: extrasomatic inputs.
These extrasomatic senses provide indirect impressions in three different ways: mechanical, associative and vicarious.
Mechanical is using some machines like microscope, telescope. It is not so interesting to know about. :-(
Associative sense is that which comes from association with others. These indirect impressions start coming in at birth and continue all our life. Association with other people provides us with language, attitudes about life, other people; in short, everything that allows us to function in any particular society.
Associative impressions often have the effect of direct impressions, becoming a part of our thinking without consciousness.
Some examples which I found were questions like: Can you remember learning your native language? Can you remember studying a foreign language? The former came through associative impression, the latter through vicarious (Includes printed material such as books and newspapers, films, video and audio tapes, and radio and television.).
Direct impression is like programming which starts from our childhood.
A school of thought says,
________
“The basis of programming is culture and upbringing. Your basic instructions on how to regard the world first come from your family. From birth your mother, father, and siblings consciously or unconsciously tell you what everything around you means in their terms. If they are deeply religious, you will be told that being deeply religious is the way to be. If they are bigots, they will tell you that their prejudices are the correct way to regard other people. They often do not tell you this in words but in their behavior and attitudes which you pick up and, since that is your model of behavior, imitate.
Most people accept such programming unquestioningly since Mother and Father say "that's it". What you receive are your family's a priori assumptions, which they received from their families, etc., until they arrive at you.”
________
Naturally, alterations appear in the programming. If they didn't, humans would still be in caves, eating what doesn't try or at least doesn't succeed in eating them first. People are capable of altering their own programming, although the "if it was good enough for grandma, it's good enough for me" attitude still exists in many.
Excogitated by a_beautifulmind @ 3:51 AM
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