Note 42

The root of all psychological dysfunction is the mistaking of models with reality.

That is, the inability to retain the level of judgement required to distinguish models from the case remains the crucial blind spot of applied decision making. It also creates openings for collective fantasies, herd behaviors etc. so the problem is not necessarily bad information, or bad models, but bad information processing at a subjective level. Society as a whole will attempt to circumvent this subjective problem with more accurate models, especially through data processing, moving forward. Therefore the act of judgement is increasingly outsourced towards common knowledge use of better models. This will create the conformist trend towards specific data processing solutions. While creating greater opportunities for profit for people who retain the ability to spot the differences between models and reality.

But that is the paradox of the realist: the real is a principle - of which the case is an instantiation - which itself cannot be parsed or verified and which is set against other instantiations of the principle.

That is, at the same time as one posits the real as the foundation of applicable truth to non self evident statements one denies the possibility of going beyond the real to epistemologize it's application, or to ontologize it's properties.

So, as Lao Tzu might have said, once thinking occurs, the possibility of real thinking ends, ergo, one thinks by not thinking, and ceases to think as one thinks.