I have asked a few people in private about whether they have had any experiences out of the norm, Im think specifically about any kind of transcendental experiences, be they religious or not. Many hadn't thought of this angle but then suddenly recalled just such experiences that they'd rather forgotten about.
But not all of them. So, I think that's getting close but hasn't as yet hit the nail on the head. lol.
Perhaps it is something related but more mundane - a psychological axis of obedience.
Obedience seems a key here - the psychos want to impose obedience, whereas freethinkers espouse dissidence.
All those experiments about obedience where not done without a reason. ;-)
An Interesting point, re transcendental experiences - and maybe there's something to the lack of any such occurrences, and obedience...Or is there a correlation between lack of imagination and obedience ?
Maybe the matrix film has it right .
'The anomoly' is a feature as well as a bug - One that cannot be erased - but only managed. (free thinking V's 'the drones')..
It remains a hypotheses - in that a majority, when they look back, can recall such things, but a few have flatly denied such experiences. So it remains an open question.
Those who strongly believe the world is just the sum of the senses (then bizarrely also believe in fantasy divinities!) will tend towards materialistic doctrines, utilitarianism, relativism, behaviourism. Those who use such constructs to control others do not necessarily have to believe in them, but those who go against any oppressive measures must surely have some different experiences to support their position. Not sure.
The oppressors - the oppressed - the dissidents.
rather uneven fight!
Neo was not there to save Zion; he was there to save the Matrix.
Indeed, the algorithmic matrix throws up two anomalies - the virus (Smith) and the antivirus (Neo) - and if unresolved will destroy the matrix. Their resolution creates a slightly different matrix that in the future will throw up another anomaly-pair ;-)
mmm... disobedience is not just about refusing to accept external orders - disobedience is also an internal process.
It is not usually called this, as it sounds odd to disobey oneself, but that internal dimension is akin to "believe nothing" - it is critical thinking applied to oneself. From memory, Feynman said, "the trick is not to fool oneself - and you are the easiest person to fool!" He was referring to physics, but it applies to any domain - it is not enough to think you have a fantastic new idea, you then have to demolish yourself, kinda stress-testing, before others do so. This is still within the realm of IQ but can also be applied to AQ.
There are stories my parents seem fond of retelling - I'm not sure why - that I was expelled from nursery (!!) and almost expelled from primary school. I do not recall being violent or rude, but I was... non-compliant (lmao)... disobedient. "I don't want to do this, ergo I won't." I couldn't understand why I had to - or why they thought I had to. So, as a personality trait, that runs deeply.
Anther interesting point...
Have you noticed the correlation between 'the drone' (for want of a more disparaging term lol), and the reluctance to say 'I was wrong about that' .
I have.
It's bloody frustrating.
Not from a win/lose, ego perspective - but from a 'lets establish 'what's what' about things, so we can progress forwards.
In recent years, I have started to think that the brain has a simple "accommodation algorithm" in relation to the universe, that needs to know just enough not to die. Truth is a luxury to the vast majority of organisms.
You then have two extremes: those who seek to control, the psychopaths; and those who are curious, the truth-seekers, scientists, mystics. very few need to know.
Sad fuckin universe!