Your worldview and choices

Steven Chisham, Wichita KS, S. [email protected]

Ten premises underlying a worldview:

1. Sense experience, relative to the perceiver, forms the basis for all understanding.
2. Raw sense information must usually be interpreted, which is the function of thinking.
3. A second information category – virtual data – is used in the same way as sense data.
4. The function and purpose of thought is to interpret sensory and virtual data via rationalization processes (or algorithms).
5. Primary sense information is not subjective, but observer bias influences both observation and interpretation of data.
6. The operation of thinking algorithms described in Premise IV is not the same as instinct.
7. Thought requires a logical “error-checking” function that also validates meaning. It attempts to answer the question: “What is true?”
8. This function also provokes a parallel validation question: “How can I know what I believe to be true actually is?”
9. Belief that something is true also defines what is true about self. Consequently, the search for certainty leads to the question: “How do I understand myself relative to ultimate truth?” Cumulative answers her provide a matrix that defines a worldview, which defines self-image and perception of truth.
10. Since humans are finite a worldview is, at best, a self-limiting reflection of truth.