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- Carl Jung had some interesting ideas on this topic, his book "Psychology and Religion" is a very thought-provoking work.
- > The reality in the way information is used, I believe, is the opposite from what we think of. We believe that if there is sufficient information, we can use it to form an accurate model of reality.
You should read Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus. He calls this "the naive view of information," which is ignorant of the existence of what he astutely identifies as "intersubjective" realities (see also Angela Cooper-White's entry on "intersubjectivism" in The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion):
This is the endgame of postmodernist and constructivist thinking that exalts narrative and story as the ground source of truth. In some ways what we are seeing is a return to religious and superstitious thinking where sufficient belief in a dogma or a pantheon is enough to reify those narratives into consensus reality.[...] its deepest and most complex usage is related to the postmodern philosophical concept of constructivism or, in social psychology, social constructionism – the notion that reality is co- constructed by participants in a relationship and in society.Historically Jungian psychology and indeed religion (a form of proto-psychology, from which Jung inherits by way of the alchemical tradition; see Jung's Psychology and Alchemy) was humanity's collective storehouse of wisdom and techniques for managing intersubjective realities and group "information hygiene." Such techniques are now being lost to antiquity with the late 20th and 21st century focus on only objectively verifiable, quantitative measurements (as opposed to the private subjective, qualitative phenomena experienced as the inner ruminations, contemplations, and dream life of the individual).
https://vimeo.com/387207936White Rose: Do you ever think that if you imagined or believed in something, it could come true... Simply by will? Angela: Yes. Actually, I did believe that. But I'm slowly having to admit that's just not the real world... Even if I want it to be. White Rose: Well, I guess it all depends on what your definition of real is.
