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There are three kinds of human cognitive ability: instrumental rationality, value rationality, and irrationality (sensibility).
Instrumental rationality tells us "how to do what we want to do", and the essence of studying the laws of the world is mainly based on learning science and engineering.
Value rationality tells us "what to do, what not to do, where is the scale", the essence of the study of human beings their own laws, mainly rely on the study of liberal arts get;
The average person understands that as long as students master instrumental rationality and value rationality, tool rationality is like an engine and throttle, value rationality is like a steering wheel and brakes, with these two big treasure protectors, human civilization can continue to develop.
What is the use of irrationality?
In the eyes of many people, it seems to be a useless thing, because of the irrational components in the brain, human beings are prone to emotional things, impulsive extremes, paranoia and arrogance, self-deception... Affect social stability and hinder human progress.
What does irrationality rely on?
Arts education.
For a long time, my understanding of art education only stopped at cultivating sentiments.
Eating and drinking enough to do nothing, playing a piano and painting a painting seems to be an indispensable spiritual pastime~
Therefore, the core subjects of the college entrance examination are always instrumental rationality (mathematical, physical and chemical students) and value rationality (language, English, political history).
Knowing "how to do it" is more important than knowing "whether to do it", and more talents are needed, so liberal arts students are discriminated against by science students.
But regardless of the liberal arts and physiology students, they discriminated against art students together, thinking that it was a small group of children who could not take shortcuts in cultural classes.
My long-term financial work requires both instrumental rationality (dealing with the logic of data charts) and value rationality (understanding human nature and politics, dealing with customers), but not dealing with irrationality.
Even so, innate curiosity has always pushed me to strive to build a complete cognitive system that includes instrumental rationality, value rationality, and irrationality, which is what I often call "interdisciplinary thinking model".
In this way, we can get as close as possible to God's perspective, to "not confused" in the full sense.
Most of the articles I usually write, whether it is Ali sexual assault, Zhang Wenhong controversy, Taliban analysis or common prosperity, most of them belong to the category of value rationality, because the news in the world is endless, there are many people who are interested, and the knowledge of nature is mostly profound and uninteresting.
Occasionally I write about pure instrumental rationality, such as The Nature of the World, What Is It? 》
But I rarely talk about art, and at most I talk about popular movies, but that doesn't mean art is my intellectual insulation.
Because talking about art, high and widowed, everyone does not like to watch...
When I was in college, I forced myself to read the history of Western art and western music, watch various art exhibitions, from renaissance to contemporary installation art, listen to various concerts, from Bach to Hisaishi, and strive to cultivate my ability to perceive art.
But these are all "techniques", and looking at one more exhibition is just a little more bragging capital.
At the level of the "Tao", it wasn't until the past two years that I slowly lifted the clouds and saw the sun-
The fundamental reason why human beings need to retain irrationality is that irrationality brings inexhaustible imagination!
And imagination is the foundation of innovation, the source of creation!
The essence of poetry is the programming of syllables;
The essence of music is the programming of scales;
The essence of painting is the programming of color blocks;
The essence of architecture and sculpture is the programming of 3D modeling;
Modern art categories such as movies, anime, and video games are programmed together.
The Nature of the World, What Is It? In this article, I say that God may be a programmer, and the essence of the world may be the programming of information.
If human beings only had reason, they could not develop into modern society.
Without irrationality, Einstein would hardly have had the brain hole to invent the theory of relativity.
Many people know that Einstein liked to play the violin, and Einstein himself said that part of his wisdom came from the lavender of music, and when playing the violin, sometimes the equations were solved in his mind.
Because the essence of music is the programming of scales, but also mathematics.
Einstein was fond of Bach, and Bach's fugue art (the polyphonic genre of the Baroque period) was a precise and regular calculation.
Sensibility and rationality, musically merged into one.
Entering modern society, why can people like Jobs and Musk fundamentally change the world? Because they're IT tech bulls?
No, Joe's programming level is very average, and he is essentially an artist with extreme cognition.
Everyone pressed the keyboard, and he firmly believed that there should be no buttons between the fingers and the phone, and no medium (reading and writing pens).
This paranoid pursuit of beauty could not be achieved at the technical level at that time, and his engineers were very mad, but he firmly believed that this was the direction of human development, and finally it was done!
Musk is similar.
He first produced a very extreme, purely whimsical obsession in the eyes of ordinary people, believing that human beings will definitely immigrate to Mars in the future, that the finger must not be the best way for people to connect with artificial intelligence devices, and that brain-computer technology (thinking about it, things will happen) is the ultimate solution, and then pushing back how to achieve this goal step by step.
I once said that Heisenberg invented matrix mechanics and discovered the uncertainty principle because his brain did not set boundaries, insisting on upgrading the one-dimensional linear model to a two-dimensional matrix model and invalidating the law of multiplication exchange.
Other physicists say you have a brain disease, right? This up-dimensional algorithm is inexplicable and has no scientific basis.
But it is this kind of scientific "weird coffee" that pushes science to the next peak.
Heisenberg invented matrix mechanics on the premise that he firmly believed that electrons were particles, and Schrödinger invented wave dynamics, provided that he firmly believed that electrons were waves.
If the theoretical premise is wrong, the research will not be fruitful until it is old and dead.
So why do they believe?
I don't know, this is an irrational belief, just follow the feeling!
As a result, Heisenberg and Schrödinger ascended the same mountain from two paths, eventually confirming that all matter has wave-particle duality.
Rational and irrational (perceptual), also like two paths, will eventually converge on the same mountain, faith.
To let the irrational force shine brightly, the most needed character is bravery!
Without bravery, human ancestors could not have left Africa; it would have been impossible to domesticate flora and fauna.
If they were not brave enough, Jobs Musk would not have been able to hold on.
Because all the relatives and friends around you will persuade you to give up, saying that you have "gone into the fire".
Confucius said, "Knowing that one cannot do it, so do the saints"; Mencius said, "Although there are tens of millions of people, I am going to the end"; and the Bodhisattva of Jizo made a vow that "hell is not empty, and vows not to become a Buddha", all of which are irrational spiritual forces.
Luo Xiang said that among all the virtues of human beings, bravery is the most scarce and the most advanced.
The "bravery" mentioned here is not only a legal level, but also a philosophical understanding.
The above analysis is still too rational, not "irrational", the following chat about the stimulation of ~
The highest realm of scientific truth-seeking, humanistic seeking goodness, and artistic pursuit is——
beauty
Without anyone to teach, children will instinctively feel the beauty and ugliness of the same kind as soon as they are born.
In order to show that they are close to the people, George W. Bush and Trump hold their children, and most of the children cry, but Obama holds the children and spends a lot of effort.
At the end of the day, it's because of being handsome!
When my son was 3 years old, I observed that in the face of a circle of "old aunts" in their twenties and thirties, he would instinctively be close to the most beautiful aunt among them.
Our lychee class sends financial dry goods to the circle of friends every time, and finally it will come with a beautiful picture that is not heavy, which can attract a lot of likes and messages every time
But what kind of opposite sex is beautiful (handsome), different people have different answers, and the same person has different life stages, and the answers are different.
When I was a child in the 80s, most of them watched "The Legend of the New White Lady", and the first female star I fell in love with in my adolescence was the protagonist of this work.
Do you say Zhao Yazhi? The immortal goddess wow~
Wrong, my first goddess of infatuation was Ye Tong!
Playing Xu Xian's...
At the same time, I also watched another costume play she starred in, "Blue Sea Love Sky", playing the heroine, at that time I was fascinated by Ye Tong's smile.
But I was really fascinated by Ye Tong, and later watched Ma Jingtao's version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon".
This version is also regarded by many Jin Yong fans as the most classic "Leaning Heaven", Ye Tong's Zhao Min, can be sassy and sweet, is my favorite female image throughout adolescence!
Because of my extreme obsession with Zhao Min, I was later fascinated by Li Zi's version of Zhao Min and thought about it day and night.
But looking back now, I can't understand how the aesthetics could have been like this at the time...
After Ye Tong, the second actress she fell in love with was Gao Mei Liang Yongqi.
Especially the styling in her first album "Short Hair", it is too pure~
In fact, Liang Yongqi is a beautiful woman who is more in line with the oriental aesthetic, but before giving birth, Liang Yongqi has been too emaciated and not very healthy, but this is what I realized many years later, and I didn't feel it at all.
When I was in college, I was also fascinated by two actresses.
One was Reese Witherspoon, who played "The Pretty Woman of The Law", who was invincible and invincible, and the light was infinite, which blinded my dog's eyes!
The other is today's cover heroine, Olympus girl Cho Yoon Hee.
The commercial film she shot that year, with the background song "Hey Juliet", was super hot at the time, not too hip too cool and too charming
Especially Cho Yoon Hee's lips, too sexy!
Throughout my student years, I also liked many other female stars, Fan Xiaoxuan, Chen Derong, Chen Yanxi, Gao Yuanyuan, Sun Yizhen, "Queen of Japanese Drama" Takako Tokiwa, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) of "Friends"...
By the way, I was once very fascinated by a female anchor of CCTV, Liu Fangfei, who was still on the science and education channel at that time.
You will find that my adolescent aesthetic preferences, the taste span is very large ~ ~ ~ ~
Later, I realized that men love to look at beautiful women, and women love to look at beautiful women; women love to look at handsome men, and men also love to look at handsome men, because it is human nature to like to see beautiful things that can make them happy.
As for "seeing one love one", it is not my scum, but the instinct of male animals to pass on their genes as much as possible.
If there is no external constraint, all men will choose to have a group of wives and concubines.
In addition to live stars, I have also been obsessed with two virtual characters in the game world.
One is Lin Yueru in the national RPG "The Legend of the Paladin Sword".
Yes, in the millennium war between the Ling'er Party and the Moon Ru Party, I was a member of the Moon Ru Party
The other is Shashi Hongye in the classic love cultivation game "Heartbeat Memories".
There are many different styles of female characters in this kind of love cultivation game, which meets the aesthetic preferences of different male players.
At that time, the boys in our class also privately gave the more beautiful girls in the class a seat -
The representative of the Language class is like the moon, the representative of the English class is like Kirito, the special shy is like Mikihara Ai, the sports are particularly good like Kiyokawa Wang, and the one who likes to mingle with boys is like Asahina Yukiko...
Of course, no girl can match Fujisaki Shiori because she is set as the perfect goddess in the game. 04
Now that it's all about reality, let's talk about it again.
Like all "straight" men, when I was a student, I had my own crush, explicit love, or whatever
And in junior high school, high school, college, the girl who occupies a place in my heart, the image difference is quite large...
But one thing is for sure, when we met again at a class reunion more than a decade later, I......... I............ Ten thousand grass and mud horses galloped in my heart
I really can't understand, when the brain was shot? How did you fall in love with Ta?
I still vividly remember the first time I lost love, I cried miserably, felt that she didn't love me anymore, and the whole world collapsed...
You don't look at Li Brother to pull these as if the wind is light, you eat melon and eat well, in fact, most people are reluctant to expose these most secret emotions in their hearts.
I dare to cut myself, because I have already passed that stage of young and crazy life, and through long-term observation and comparative thinking, I found that this is not my personal accident, and the bottom layer is the inevitability engraved in the genes - human nature is connected.
This chaotic feeling that "this situation can be turned into a memory, but it was already confused at that time" is an irrational product.
It is the so-called "lover's eyes out of the West".
I was wise and willing to be confused
To whom do you complain about your experience?
Love to the point of not being able to love, gathering until the end must be dispersed
After the prosperity becomes a dream
Even if this irrational love has not been cultivated to the right result, only after experiencing it can I know that this feeling is true! target! very! beauty! Good!
When I was in college, I joined the school drama club and starred in the most popular phenomenon-level avant-garde experimental drama of the beginning of this century - "Rhinoceros in Love"
In order to write this article, after more than 10 years, I re-watched the 99 version of the video (Guo Tao, Wu Yue version).
I was only 20 years old when I was acting in the drama, and after the performance, I wanted to talk about a vigorous love, but I did not have a deep understanding of the nature of love.
At that time, I just wanted to quickly enter that state of love, who I loved was not important, the essence was to compare my heart (to see that others have female tickets and they are not inferior).
Look again after 17 years, ha, the level of cognition has increased significantly, and you will understand it at a glance
The story of "Rhinoceros in Love" is super simple -
A rhino keeper named Ma Lu falls in love with the female neighbor Mingming, but Mingming does not love him, and loves another scumbag. Ma Lu tried his best to please Mingming, hoping that Mingming could accept his love, but Mingming was paranoid about loving the scumbag. The more paranoid Ma Lu finally chooses to kidnap Ming ming and kill the rhino Tula, his only friend, and sacrifice Tula's heart and himself to Mingming as a living sacrifice, symbolizing his loyal love.
On stage, 20-year-old Li Ge Ben Li was performing "I am a sexy female rhinoceros", and I played a special portrait of a fake bride
The metaphor of the rhino is used because the rhinoceros has very poor eyesight, looks like it is wearing heavy armor, has sharp horns on its head, and looks majestic and inviolable, but it is actually very afraid of being hurt, symbolizing that men and women in love are also in this irrational blind state.
Screenwriter Liao Yimei wrote many classic lines, perfectly interpreting what is irrational -
Forgetting is the only thing that ordinary people can do, but I decided not to forget.
There have been many times when I have wanted to give up, but it has left a painful feeling somewhere in my body, and I am afraid at the thought that it will always be faintly painful there, and the thought that in the future my eyes will become dimmed by that little pain. Loving her is the best thing I've ever done.
I want to give you everything, but I have nothing. I want to give up everything for you, but I have nothing to give up.
Everything white has become black ink compared to you and ashamed of yourself, all ignorant birds and beasts are desperate because they can't say your name, the police at all intersections have a green light to let you pass smoothly, and all compasses have shown me your direction.
All the light is coming at me, all the oxygen is absorbed by me, all the objects are losing weight, and I have come to the end of all roads.
People can live on carbon dioxide. As long as he has love.
Didn't find it? There is a lot of extreme language in the lines, especially the last one, which is completely against science...
It is precisely because of the violation of science that this line reflects an incomparably strong dramatic tension and becomes a classic among classics!
A teacher who taught film classes in the university complained to us privately, and when he was going to review his elective courses, he found an old professor from the physics department to sit down and listen.
That lesson explained Lou Ye's "Suzhou Creek", which was a banned film at that time, and it was a love literary film with surreal colors.
After the class, the old professor said that how did the heroine (Zhou Xun) in the movie be deceived by her boyfriend for the first time, jump into the river alone and die, become a mermaid, and then jump into the river with her boyfriend and die again?
It's not scientific...
A person who will only use tools to rationally look at the world all his life, can't understand the irrational film language...
So I especially admire Da Liu, a science fiction writer, who perfectly integrates instrumental rationality, value rationality, and irrationality into his work. 05
Chen Danqing said in "Partial" that There is a big problem in China's art education, because I always like to talk about those tomes of aesthetic theory and art history, what year a certain painter was born, what year he died, what he painted... That's the archive, let the students remember what those are for? I want to know if you have a check on the Internet.
"Aesthetics" is not taught, everyone has eyes, use their eyes to see ah!
Babies don't understand anything, they will look around with their eyes open, they want to laugh when they see beauty, and they want to cry when they see ugly.
The important thing is not to explain the ins and outs of this painting, but to look at it with your heart, to see the color spots on it, which requires you to enter the art museum, stand in front of the painting, the paint is thick, the good painting is alive, will talk to you, and you must feel this beauty with your heart.
Hearing these words, I suddenly realized why I fell madly in love with Titian, Rembrandt, and Jacques-Louis David at first sight, but da Vinci, Vermeer, and Ingres did not have this feeling of excitement!
The same goes for music, I fell in love with it the first time I listened to Bach, Mozart, and Dvořák, but I didn't feel that way when I listened to Haydn, Schubert, and Chopin.
There is also the famous "Kanagawa Oki Naori", I can't describe in words, why I liked this feeling at first sight.
The combination of Katsushika Hokusai's Kanagawa Oki Langri and Van Gogh's Starry Night shows that there is an inherent unity between the two "programming languages" (Impressionism was already heavily influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e).
Chen Danqing said that when Wang Ximeng of the Song Dynasty painted "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", he was just an 18-year-old child, and most of the things he did at the age of 18 were not self-aware. According to Westerners, it was God who made him do it.
What God makes people do, you can only appreciate and sigh, you can't try to be reasonable...
There is truth in this, to discern what has been forgotten.
In the vast majority of problems in human society, reason is the best solution tool, but there are some higher dimensional problems, and reason is powerless.
Liu Cixin famously said in "Ball Lightning": The key to a beautiful life is that you can get hooked on something.
Love is a puzzle and dizzying
It may be okay to forget the pain, but it is not easy to forget you
If you have not been obsessed with anything other than making money in your life, you will lose a lot in this life. 06
The theme of today's pull is "irrationality", the core case is "love", but love and marriage are two different things.
Love can be irrational, marriage must be rational.
How many people have admired your youthful appearance
Do you know who wants to endure the relentless changes of time?
Think of the incredibly moving green faces of those class flowers in your memory, confirm the look in your eyes, that is the feeling of collagen spraying out...
Look at them who are now 40...
Birth, old age, illness and death, natural iron law.
The shelf life of love is naturally very short, but marriage requires long-term preservation, a good-looking skin bag can only look good for a while, and an interesting soul can be interesting for a long time.
But even at the spiritual level, who can guarantee that after thirty or fifty years, your forward speed and direction will not be very different, and you will still be as sympathetic as when you are in love, and there will be endless words?
If the skins are old and the soul is no longer synchronized, what will be used to maintain the marriage?
When I believed in Jesus, I suddenly understood that the iron triangle that holds love: flesh, spirit, and covenant.
Flesh is the most unreliable, and spirits may fail, and only about can last forever.
I used to write a long article teaching boys how to find the most suitable marriage partner - "Who is Li Sister-in-law?" (An article that may affect your view of marriage for the rest of your life))
Today I also give girls a trick.
Girls looking for objects, the first thing to see -
Responsibility!
The second is whether there is a house, whether there is self-motivation.
Marry a man who lacks a sense of responsibility for the family, no matter how handsome, rich, humorous, knowledgeable, pua, in bed kung fu more... None of your marriages will be happy.
Don't believe in the prodigal son to turn back, don't put your life's happiness in the hope of Schrödinger's cat~