Zero to 1: Information in People and Consciousness
Understanding the Nature of 'Information'
4 INSIGHTS
I.
我希望这会让你感到困惑 即是即非，非即是。Information is inherently meaningless. We give it meaning.
II.
Information isn’t passive. It's active.
It interacts with us and can influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, even when we don’t understand it.
III.
Consuming information is the process of giving it meaning, and this meaning then forms and shapes our experiences.
IV.
Information and the meaning we give things can affect us on a subconscious level and trigger our impulses.
3 QUOTES
I.
"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth." Daniel Kahneman
This is an example of how information affects us subconsciously. The more we hear, see, and experience a piece of information, the more it gets repeated by our countrymen and becomes a part of our culture, and the more we are to believe that it is true and act on it subconsciously.
II.
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." Carl Jung
Here, Carl Jung takes it a step further.
Most of the information we believe in and act on is cultural information and a set of ideologies that guide our lives. We rarely inspect how our beliefs about the world guide our actions.
1 QUESTION
If the human mind is like a lens that bends information to fit within its perspective, then how can information change someone’s mind?