Your view; Is there a difference between common sense & 'reason?
Great question. I think there is a difference between the two. Especially if it's in relation to your health.'Reason' often dictates that we follow an 'expert's' knowledge and experience.
However, sometimes the advice or instructions given by 'expert reasoning' doesn't seem compatible either with our physical body - side effects - or with our life style/beliefs. When this happens we use 'common sense' to find perhaps some middle ground where, although not disregarding reason, this 'middle ground' is more in tune with the self as an individual.So basically I think what I'm trying to say - very badly - is that reason tends to focus on certain aspects and is rigid - in your case health habits - but doesn't tune into the whole person. Common sense takes account of the whole person by finding, hopefully, a compromise that we can live with and so is flexible, but without loosing sight of the facts.
I'm not sure if any of this makes sense or if it's what you were looking for, but here's hoping at least a bit of this babbling will help. Take care.
Yes,Common sense refers to sound judgment in practical matters. It is frequently reflexive, not requiring any conscious process of logic. Reason involves forming judgments based on a rational process of logic, and it can involve judgments on theories and ideas -- more ephemeral matters -- not just the practical.
The distinction between this structure of thought and common sense should be, well, common sense. Common sense has no structure to it, is explicitly subjective, and is subject to all manner of cognitive biases. There is no need for testing, replication, or verification when you are reasoning for yourself.
No checks for you to pass or fail, no peers reviewing. It is no wonder why science is so much better at explaining things. Unlike common sense or intuition, science systematically and empirically tests theories and hypothesis.
This is important when viewed in the light that psychological research shows us that the default mode of human information processing includes the confirmation bias, which is a form of selective testing, and unworthy of scientific thinking. If unchecked, most people intuitively notice or select ideas, beliefs, or facts that fit within what they already assume the world to be like and dismiss the rest. Common sense reasoning has no problem with the idea that the Sun goes around the Earth because it sure looks like it does, doesn’t it?
Humans already feel like they are the center of the universe, why not accept a belief that confirms that notion? Science is free from such constraints.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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