Hear

You may say only a few extraterrestrials would ask for others’ opinion despite they have their own idea that is badly in need of support.

(The usual scenarios is, during a group meeting led by a lovely creature of this kind, opinion is dragged from everyone’s mouth. But, all ideas other than the desired one will be put down as inadequate because the entire picture of the whole situation has not been thoroughly considered.)

Yes, very true. It is not common (for us Homo erectus) to ask for others’ suggestion when we have our own opinion in the conscious mind. However, many a time our idea is already there but hibernating in the subcortical white matter, cerebellum, myenteric plexus of the gut, or the autonomic nerves of the heart, and we crave for an extrinsic voice that is in phase with ours in order to create a resonance and bring up the suppressed synaptic activity to our conscious mind.

As the motto of the Pasteur Institute says: You only see what your eyes want to see, and your eyes only want to see things already in your mind.

Same for your ears.

PS. I must say I learnt this motto as a secondary school children and cannot verify its source, or whether the Pasteur Institute really has such a motto. The first part of this statement did become very famous after being adapted by Madonna in her song Frozen.