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Paradigms and 'world views' are a natural limiter of melting pots.

As the word is used here it means 'the underlying belief system that unifies all of the arts and sciences of a population'.

Here is a dictionary definition.

par·a·digm /ˈperəˌdīm/

1. a typical example or pattern of something; a model: "there is a new paradigm for public art in this country"

2. a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles: "English determiners form a paradigm: we can say “a book” or “his book” but not “a his book.”"

3. a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community. Or such a cognitive framework shared by members of any discipline or group: the company’s business paradigm.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/paradigm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Weltanschauung

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A group of people who interact in any way whatsoever will develop a common language of some sort, and it's individuals also develop overlapping, or common, paradigms.

Because a paradigm is 'corrected by nature', in other words for example people who believe or feel or think that they can fly if they jump off a cliff will die, paradigms cannot deviate too far from reality over the long term.

But nature neither supports nor opposes a particular group's paradigms ultimately, and group survival is based not on the strength or accuracy of a paradigm, but on its flexibility and ability to be changed.

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The nature of paradigms is 'zero sum', meaning that if you reduced every belief a person had to its most archetypal elementary form, it would be the same in some basic way as anybody else's paradigm or complete set of paradigms. But that equality of paradigms leads to a lot of traps.

A person who has one eye will see as much, and as far, as a person with two eyes, they just won't perceive the third dimension of depth as well. If you test a one eyed person and a two eyed person using an eye chart either one might score better. But if you test them in something that requires perceiving depth the one eyed person will wash out. From that you can deduce that there might be some advantage to a second field of vision, etc.

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Melting pots consume groups with different paradigms, then try to assimilate the survivors. This 'fresh blood' gives a temporary boost to the strength of the melting pot world view, or paradigm, but it stops the melting pot world view from growing as fast as it did.

Two isolated indigenous groups will develop far faster than one melting pot containing the same two groups.

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There are many examples of things that change paradigms.

When a person becomes hypothermic, when their body temperature drops below a certain point, their logic begins to shift. You can examine the 'logic' of a hypothermic person and see it is not the same as the logic of a person whose body temperature is 'normal'.

The first impression of a non hypothermic person to the logic of a hypothermic person is that the logic is 'wrong', the way "1 + 1 = 3" is usually considered wrong.

A hypothermic person may make practical miscalculations based on their 'center of consciousness', like the 'paradoxical undressing' referred to at

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia

Paradigms, in fact all 'interpretation', is derived from a group, a collective, whose interests are served through some common view.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/mitochondria/mitorigin.html

Related to this cold induced change of paradigm are situational memories.

A drunk person 'lives in a role' during their intoxication and the paradigm their persona lives in while intoxicated, the world they live in, is different than the one they live in while sober.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-dependent_memory

 

  

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