ON biases

You know what a “bias” is?  It’s a survival mechanism.  Conventional psychology is so biased against biases.

I’ve been watching a series on the Galapagos islands lately.   As you know, they are a series of volcanic islands, which Darwin went to – where he first came up with the idea of evolution.

The point is, all of these islands have a different age, and the animals they have attracted have adapted to their very different characteristics.

On one island, there are finches who are quite calm and seed eating.  On another there are vampire finches.  The peck the backs of other birds and swallow their blood.  One finch has a bias for food, another for blood.

So that’s all a bias is, really.  We should therefore be very careful about giving up our biases because they might be very important to our survival.

There are some biases that can limit you, though.