Comprehension requires conscious confrontation with reality rather than interpretive comfort

Evidence

Most significantly, information overload must deteriorate independent thought itself. That’s because of the factor I came to grips with in reference to making stories, or music, and also in the context of SNOLAB researchers, for this factor has a hand in crafting scientific theories. Man makes stories and thinks creatively via a three-part process, the first element of which is a strong silence, similar to the silence before the curtain lifts on a stage, which for a shard of a second eliminates prejudices and preceding notions and allows the coming together of concepts that prior to this instant did not exist, in the mind of the thinker at least. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 453 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal humanism retards the enlargement of meaning that true understanding requires; Thought requires deliberate self-distancing because reality resists being understood directly; Creative thought requires an initial silence that clears prior mental assumptions — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 453 (+9 more)

Related

• Thought requires deliberate self-distancing because reality resists being understood directly (similarity 0.92)
• Creative thought requires an initial silence that clears prior mental assumptions (similarity 0.87)
• Perfect silence as an unattainable absolute still functions as real and necessary (similarity 0.82)
• Knowledge requires mental reflection on existence rather than passive sensory impressions (similarity 0.80)
• Constant information overload structurally undermines the capacity for independent thought (similarity 0.80)
• People fear true silence because it threatens rather than merely rests their worldview (similarity 0.80)
• The idea of an absolute silence functions as a necessary reset point for thought (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Thought requires deliberate self-distancing because reality resists being understood directly #expands (0.85)
• Creative thought requires an initial silence that clears prior mental assumptions #expands (0.75) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 453
• Transparent realist form cannot escape the reader’s prevailing prejudices #corroborates (0.75)