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The book “Bias is beautiful” by Tolon demonstrates that there is one basic reality in our biology which helps us understand sociological reactions; our belief systems and even our language. We understand and react with the basic format of self/ non-self to our world and to each other. Every single cell being reacts and tries to survive with this mechanism. This again is neither good, nor bad, but a biological reality. It is easy to see the changes in the language by looking at 20 year old newspapers. The constant change is obvious if you listen to the language different generations speak within the same town.

Everyone will accept the fact that she/he looks at “others” living in a different district with a certain “natural” bias. And as no one will be able to react to everyone else and get to know “them” he will have natural prejudices. So no two individuals will be free of bias as no two are alike. People who believe to be stronger or are stronger will exert pressure on the others in contest for better hunting grounds etc. But also because of “cultural” differences and try to put them in pecking order.

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As Dr Tolon demonstrates in his book "Bias is beautiful" : Bias is the basic form of differentiation for all living beings from the immunological level upwards resulting from the differentiation self/non-self.This basic standard differentiation which also has the fundemental deviation= bias (being neither good nor bad- just a basic biological fact) in all intellectual- cognitive understanding of all individuals as opposed to common sense which can be articulated by a group of individuals.

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