The dilemma of Truth
Truth, the single most entity about which our life revolves, but often it is shrouded in mystery. Everyone wants to be right, not only for others but to keep themselves sane. Being right gives you dominance and power over others. You feel good whenever someone else's corroborates whatever you were saying. Your mind rewards you for the positive confirmation. Most people don't like being proved wrong, but have you ever thought about why that's the case? Why it is so necessary for our minds to feel right about everything. Just imagine, you wake up tomorrow morning and find that whatever you knew about the world and yourself was a lie, your mind will stop working properly, you will go into extreme anxiety. To keep yourself sane, your mind needs to think that whatever it is thinking is right and from here arises what we call conformational bias. Conformational bias is a term in psychology that tells us that we will consume the information which corroborates our already learned b...