It is estimated our unconscious brains receive 400,000 bits of information every second but only consciously process around 2000 bits per seconds. Therefore, from infancy it becomes vital for our brains to discern which data is important & which is superfluous. 1/
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Of course just knowing them isn't enough. But you have to start somewhere and if you don't even know you have them, there's nowhere to go at all. And it takes ages to change your brain for sure.
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Definitely, and I appreciate you putting it out there. You can only act on your biases if you know you have them in the first place!
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There are some Buddhist meditation practices that are designed to make these cognitive filters and biases more transparent, such that you actually become more aware of them in real-time, rather than just knowing about them abstractly.
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