Isn't the mind's job to make our beliefs and our experienced reality consistent with each other? #askNostr

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The mind has many jobs. The critical thinking component perhaps is the part focused on the job you mentioned

The critical thinking component acts as a referee, ensuring our beliefs and experienced #reality play at the same field and by the same rules… πŸ€”

If you train it maybe , by default it distorts your experienced life to fit your beliefs and causes things like self-deception and confirmation bias