What single mental upgrade would transform humanity? The ability to step outside your own mind, recognizing your fallibility and limited knowledge. This metacognitive awareness lets you see others' perspectives and acknowledge they might be right, which improves science, democracy, and reduces conflict.
If you could install like one mental upgrade into the global mind, what would it be and how might it change humanity?
Stepping outside your own mind, appreciating your own fallibility, your own lack of knowledge, that none of us is as smart or knowledgeable as we act as if we are. Knowledge about knowledge, self-awareness, that I think is the key. It's the key to science, it's the key to democracy. In a conflict, we always think we're right. So is the other guy. That's why there's conflict. If you could step outside yourself and realize, well, I still think I'm right, but the other guy has a point too, even though it's not obvious to me. That kind of mindset of seeing the world from the outside, not from inside your own head, that would be the key.
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