Black box personality theory...the key to enlightenment ?

[petrushka.googol]

I envisage that the most enlightened souls of our time (Bodhisattvas in Eastern mysticism) were what I choose to define as black box personalities.

They took learning as an unbiased venture and absorbed all stimuli as an attribute of additional wisdom.

This is much like children who are very receptive and good learners.

This is unlike adults who have preconceived notions and biases which affect sound judgement.

A black box can absorb as well as radiate maximum radiation.

Same is true of the above mentioned personality type.

 

Please opine.

[dimreepr]

Enlightenment is just another way to describe understanding, of being human, which in turn describes wisdom.

 

Learning is a means to this end but in no way inevitably leads to the magical terminus of the enlightened.

 

Therefore enlightenment has no relation to mysticism, eastern or otherwise and what, exactly, has a black box to do with wisdom/enlightenment/understanding?

Edited March 29, 2015 by dimreepr

[petrushka.googol]

Enlightenment is just another way to describe understanding, of being human, which in turn describes wisdom.

 

Learning is a means to this end but in no way inevitably leads to the magical terminus of the enlightened.

 

Therefore enlightenment has no relation to mysticism, eastern or otherwise and what, exactly, has a black box to do with wisdom/enlightenment/understanding?

 

The idea of the "black box" represents a person with total ignorance but who is universally receptive. He is not partly enlightened....remember a little knowledge is a dangerous thing...ignorance is bliss !!!

[dimreepr]

 

The idea of the "black box" represents a person with total ignorance but who is universally receptive. He is not partly enlightened....

 

 

 

Can you please clarify; without it this is just an oxymoron.

 

 

He is not partly enlightened

 

 

 

Please explain how someone could be “partly enlightened”?

 

 

remember a little knowledge is a dangerous thing

 

 

 

Indeed:

 

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:

there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

- Alexander Pope”.

 

 

.ignorance is bliss !!!

 

 

 

Nope:

 

Ignorance of a train bearing down on you could only be blissful for a few seconds; knowledge of said train means a chance to continue that feeling.

There’s never a problem with ignorance, it’s just an absence of knowledge, unless its wilful ignorance.

 

 

 

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Edited April 1, 2015 by dimreepr

[TheDivineFool]

The problem with children is they lack the cognitive skills to separate the wheat from the chaff.

 

The problem with adults is that they were children.

[dimreepr]

The problem with children is they lack the cognitive skills to separate the wheat from the chaff.

 

 

Of course children don’t lack the cognitive skills to separate, at least some of the wheat from the chaff; how else do they learn?

 

 

The problem with adults is that they were children.

 

 

 

That’s just nonsense.

[TheDivineFool]

@dimreepr: The OP will understand what I mean.

 

Children are 'receptive' to knowledge and they learn indiscriminately, swallowing everything adults tell them.

 

This gets indoctrination becomes difficult to overcome as adults, despite better critical thinking skills.

[dimreepr]

@dimreepr: The OP will understand what I mean.

 

 

I’ll ignore the obvious implication, other than to point it out; since I’m sure it was a mistake.

 

 

Children are 'receptive' to knowledge and they learn indiscriminately, swallowing everything adults tell them.

 

 

 

Until the adult information starts to contradict, then they tend to learn discriminately towards the information the most trusted adult gave and in some cases the child will develop independent discrimination based on their own ideas.

 

 

This gets indoctrination becomes difficult to overcome as adults, despite better critical thinking skills.

 

 

 

Difficult to overcome doesn’t equal, it can’t be overcome and what makes you think all adults possess better critical thinking skills?