Our tendency to perceive—to impose—narrativity and causality are symptoms of the same disease—dimension reduction. Moreover, like causality, narrativity has a chronological dimension and leads to the perception of the flow of time. Causality makes time flow in a single direction, and so does narrativity. Taleb, Nassim. The Black Swan (p. 70). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
We are biased for narrativity and causality because they're chronological which leads to the perception of the flow of time.
When in fact history is cyclical and everything revolves in a cycle (if you zoom out sufficiently). But we get (only) older until we die.
Hmm but are we? Isn't it stupid to think that when everything is circular our lives are linear? Furthermore, we know that time is an illusion and it's really just another dimension like space. Therefore, isn't it more logical to think that our lives are circular as well? We are born, we die, and then are born again?
And also on a physical level. The atoms that we consist of will sooner or later become another living being.
But for this to be true I need to make sure that all the processes are in fact circular.
Atoms are balls that revolve around each other. So do planets. So do stars. So do galaxies.
What are the things that don't go circular?
What about waves? Maybe time is a wave? Maybe it's both? Maybe we are both?
I need to get deeper into physics.
We are thinking linearly because in our small scale (as animals) we must perceive time as linear to survive. But it's an illusion like the earth seeming flat from the surface. If you zoom out enough it is a ball. Why then, when we are biased to see time as linear, do we think that universal time is linear as well? Isn't it more
But ain't I here liable of the narrative fallacy myself? Trying to reach conclusions with the information I have? And how to avoid it in my newsletter not to write utter nonsense? Is it about consuming more information? Is it about better thinking? Feynman technique because it's deconstructing and filling the gaps with new information.