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In other words, these philosophers could play around with the concept
of object impermanence because they still lived within a world of solid
objects. But, for us, this issue is no longer a mental game. Through special
effects of television, movies and computer games, we can literally create
worlds where common sense does not rule, where cars do „morph‟ into
dragons, people do mutate, and where holes do appear in the space-time
continuum.
But everyone knows that this is a pretense—that is common sense.
Exactly. As long as we live in a world which is predominantly solid, and
our forays into escapist realms of nonsense are limited, then the knowing
which we learned as
children will survive. But,
our entertainment
continually expands and
improves. Escapism
becomes more vivid,
nonsense more blatant,
alterations more
fundamental, emotional intensity deeper, and personal involvement more
complete. Eventually, the mental chaos will erode the foundations of our
common sense. Except, this time, even the pubs will not feel solid. Instead,
there will be a gnawing fear that maybe, just maybe, reality isn‟t so real.
Then we will realize that common sense has a price, and that we have
squandered our mental inheritance.

Natural Conscience

We have seen how Perceiver strategy in the child naturally places trust
in 'beliefs' which come from adults with emotional status. This mental
foundation of emotional 'truth' is the basis for culture and leads to approval
'conscience.' A At the same time, Perceiver strategy in the child is also
learning common sense. Events and situations which reoccur in the
external world teach automatic Perceiver thought about reasonableness,
which in turn encourages internal Perceiver thought to believe in
connections which are repeated. I suggest that common sense also leads to
a form of conscience, which we will call natural conscience, because it is
rooted in the natural laws which appear to govern the universe.

ideas. My research suggests that almost all philosophers have the cognitive
style of Facilitator.
A If you feel that we have not yet fully defined approval 'conscience,' then

you are right. It will come.