Some people say that the most stupid behavior in the world is to reason with others. Maybe this sentence seems extreme, but if you think about it carefully, it is indeed true. Because often people who have the same knowledge as you can understand what you say, but people who have

Some people say that the most stupid behavior in the world is to reason with others. This sentence may seem extreme, but if you think about it carefully, it is indeed true. Because often people who have the same understanding of as you do about can understand what you are saying, but people who have a completely different understanding of from you will not believe it no matter how much you say. Below we will explain cognition in depth from a psychological perspective. The content may be a bit boring, but if you understand the principles of cognition, you may have unexpected insights. And you will understand why people who find less knowledge about are more likely to argue.

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What is cognition from a psychological perspective?

Some people may find cognition obscure. In fact, from a psychological perspective, cognition is also called understanding .

Cognition is generally the process of people understanding external things, or the process of information processing of external things that act on people's sensory organs . Cognition includes psychological phenomena such as feeling, perception, memory, and thinking.

What is it like?

Feeling is actually an attribute of things that we use our own sensory organs to understand. For example, in a chili pepper, we can see the red color and the shape with our eyes. You can feel the feel of the pepper with your hands. You can use your mouth to feel the pain that chili peppers bring to your mouth, etc. This attribute is and feels .

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Perception brings perceptual knowledge

Perception is actually people combining various feelings to develop an overall understanding of things. Why do we know what a pepper is and what an apple is. We cannot simply rely on color and think that all red things are chili peppers. So we need to use various senses to generate a comprehensive understanding. At this time, you will know by looking at the appearance that it is a pepper rather than an apple.

What feeling and perception bring us together is an understanding of things, which is usually a perceptual judgment about the outside of things.

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Memory and thinking produce Rational understanding

People need to think to have a deeper understanding of things. For example, a yellow apple, judging purely from a perceptual perspective, is not the same color as the apples we have seen before. If you look at it this way, then this does not belong to Apple. But after thinking about it, we found that its shape, feel, taste, etc. are the same as the apples we eat. Analyzing through thinking gives us a deeper understanding. That's why we've only had red peppers, but we can probably make out some green peppers.

But this process relies heavily on memory, that is, your past experience. You have to extract it from the brain and compare it with the current things to connect them. Only then can you have a deeper understanding and gain a rational understanding. . Once you have a rational understanding, you will not argue with someone until your face turns red just because he tells you that there are green peppers.

Debate

The root of the debate comes from different cognitions. Often, the less knowledge, the more argumentative

Schopenhauer once said: The biggest prison in the world is the human mind.

Each of us likes to use our inherent cognition to look at things and solve problems. This determines that each of us has our own unique cognitive system. Just like the sentence in "Autumn Waters in the Outer Chapter of Zhuangzi": " Summer insects cannot talk about ice." A bug whose life cycle only exists in summer. You discuss winter ice and snow with it. There is no way to understand it. Because you have exceeded its cognitive scope . At this time it will think you are talking nonsense.

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However, you will find a problem. People with less knowledge tend to be more stubborn. Precisely because there is little knowledge, there will be more usage scenarios for a certain kind of knowledge, which will consolidate this knowledge. In areas that they are extremely familiar with, people tend to be more firm in their knowledge and tend to be stubborn. See . For example, an old melon farmer has grown red watermelons all his life, while another person has eaten yellow watermelons all his life. If these two people discuss watermelon together. I believe this will be a disaster.

Why do people with high cognition rarely debate with others? Because as your learning and knowledge increase. You will find that cognition is originally a process of building, breaking, and building again. What you think is correct now may not be correct in a higher dimension. In the process of cognitive changes again and again. These people developed a sense of awe towards things and began to understand that there is no limit to learning and knowledge is endless. Just like our current understanding of the universe and the world, it may not be the correct understanding.

When you meet someone who is arguing with you again, from a freedom point of view, I think everyone can express their own opinions and opinions, but from a psychological point of view, I don't think it is necessary to get angry. Because you can never change a person's perception unless he realizes it himself.

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