Choice is an Illusion? LO4505

John Paul Fullerton (jpf6745@acs.tamu.edu)
Sat, 30 Dec 1995 17:18:41 +0000

Replying to LO4474 --

Roy responded to some of my earlier comments

Thanks for understanding what I was saying! You picked two particular
passages that I would have thought were too complicated for what they
said, and they might have been :)

I was thinking since writing about ways that the "likeliness" of
error might not be universal, meaning that if I make mistakes in
learning, it doesn't mean that everyone would make the same mistakes
or possibly even make any blameable mistakes. Not knowing the letters
of the alphabet before learning them doesn't seem like it should be
counted as an error.

One example of two different people entering a "societally complex"
situation with one showing possibly greater error-avoidance is one person
meeting a new person with intended friendliness and an effort to
understand and another person - unfortunately myself either in the past or
now - making the acquaintance perfunctorally and focussing on wanting to
be allowed to introspect for a while first. The more personable effort
might provide learning of certain behaviors that would not easily be
received and thus avoid pressing certain issues leading to errors of
certain kinds that the introspective person might not be aware of.

The personal outlook of the one who was focussed on others
may be related to error-free learning and thus less crisis-provoking
interaction in learning.

Have a nice day, and Happy New Year everyone

--
John Paul Fullerton
jpf6745@acs.tamu.edu