Saturday, August 22, 2020

The mind is a court

I thought of the mind as a court.

I'm going to brainstorm about it:

  • People don't judge themselves enough.
  • They'll judge some of their ideas but not others.
  • They'll judge some of their ideas by their strictest standards, but won't judge some other ideas by those same standards.
    • And they won't have any good reasoning (or any reasoning at all) for why some ideas should be judged and others not.
  • A person's mind should be thought of as a court.
    • There's a judge. A jury. Lawyers. Witnesses. Bystanders.
      • They are all you -- different parts of you.
      • These parts of your are approximately autonomous.[1]
    • People routinely act in ways where some part of them refuses to go to court.
      • And the other people (the other parts of the person) refuse to call them out on it.
    • Those parts of you that are refusing to go to court are doing things like rioting and destroying property. (This is a metaphor for mental suffering.)

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