Comment by mcv
4 days ago
I just realized that kids (and adults) these days grow up more in virtual environments behind screens than in touch with the real world, and maybe that might have an impact on our ability to discern truth from lies. That would certainly explain a lot about the state of our world.
A few years back i saw a documentary about kids in a third world country were it is normal to use plastic bags for drinking soda.
These kids couldn't understand that the plastic garbage in their own nature is not part of nature.
Nonetheless, depending on what rules you mean, there are a lot of people who show that logic or 'truth' is not the same for everyone.
People believing in a god, ghosts, conspiricy theories, flat earth etc.
I'm more curious if the 'self' can only be trained if you have a clear line of control. We learn what the self is because there is a part which we can control and than there is a part which we can't control.