Actually, before the industrial revolution people
were a bit of jack of all trades. Memes began to
accumulate very fast after the industrial
revolution and expansion of knowledge led to
specialisation.
--- On Thu, 8/26/10, tartbrain <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: physicist Lawrence Krauss on Chopra and TM --
Humility amongst Knowingness
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 8:11 AM
I was just looking at th sky, yesterday, seeing a jet surging upward soon after
takeoff, and I thought "I would have little to no clue as to how to build one
of those." Many similar cascading thoughts on cars, global internet, modern
medical equipment, robots, etc. And looking up at the stars -- I have little to
no clue as to whats out there and how it "works". "I know nothing" or at least
such a small drop in the larger bucket that it's knock you flat on the ground
sobering.
Yet given my vast, real ignorance -- this is not false modesty -- I find myself
taking strong positions, flaring opinions, and all. Kind of a contradiction I
thought. Not to say that I am leaning towards apathy and "absolute" relativism
-- that is not "Its all good, one opinion is exactly as good as another."
Clearly some opinions and views are better informed and reasoned than others.
And strong opinions, and pursuit of progress according to how one "thinks" the
world works is how knowledge expands - in the great global lab of life.
My new aim is to maintain among such strong, informed, well reasoned opinions
(so I humor and flatter myself), to maintain a bit of, if not vast, humbleness
amid such mental solar flairs and general feeling of the radiant heat of
(apparent) knowingness.
