Yes but breaking forum rules brings about a whole new perspective on ignorance. 🙄
No, Bonsai, I'm actually a big fan of the Prof!
I caught a repeat of one of his TV programmes recently, and his evaluation of the odds against intelligent life forming in the Universe made perfect sense to me.
I caught a repeat of one of his TV programmes recently, and his evaluation of the odds against intelligent life forming in the Universe made perfect sense to me.
I’ve paid attention to the UFO phenomena, especially the seemingly credible military men who connect their presence with nukes, and it seems very likely there’s something we don’t yet generally understand going on.
I don’t pretend to know what it is. The phenomenon I am most sure about, though, is the tendency of humans towards premature conclusions. Once we develop a belief system about something, we lose some intelligence because we quit letting new information in unfiltered. And that’s just as true of those who are “100% sure” it is not aliens as those who are “100% sure” they are.
What’s wrong with a little agnosticism about unknowns?
I recall reading somewhere that premature conclusions are related to the degree we have internalized Aristotelian either-or logic, which should be often discarded in favor of integrating some on Einstein’s relativity or even quantum mechanics and its realization that the world may be more like Schoedinger’s Cat (consciousness generated) and less like Pavlov’s Dog (mechanical, like a watch).
I don’t pretend to know what it is. The phenomenon I am most sure about, though, is the tendency of humans towards premature conclusions. Once we develop a belief system about something, we lose some intelligence because we quit letting new information in unfiltered. And that’s just as true of those who are “100% sure” it is not aliens as those who are “100% sure” they are.
What’s wrong with a little agnosticism about unknowns?
I recall reading somewhere that premature conclusions are related to the degree we have internalized Aristotelian either-or logic, which should be often discarded in favor of integrating some on Einstein’s relativity or even quantum mechanics and its realization that the world may be more like Schoedinger’s Cat (consciousness generated) and less like Pavlov’s Dog (mechanical, like a watch).
