My mentor used to tell me: "The best things are invented by those who don't know it can't be done."
Bob Higgins On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote: > Beside what you say, there is some common error. > > This is to imagine that education can help people be more rational. > In fact education is there not only to give tools and informations, but > also to structure the mind to accept those tools and information. > This is well explaine by Thomas Kuhn as the notion of paradigm. > http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhn.html > > a paradigm is in a way a selective blindness designed to make you focus on > "what works" in the paradigm, to avoid "losing time money and energy" > looking beside. > > see how the skeptics battle not to prove LENR is wrong, but to save money > by not searching for it... > > it is a specialization of intelligence. > as all specialization it have it's domain of validity, and thus the > domaine where it is an illusion, an error, a tragedy. > > this is why less educate people can, by accident, show more intelligent > behavior not by their superior IQ or deep intelectual tooling, but because > they have less tools, and simpler reasoning that allow them to focus on key > arguments, and not be fooled by inverted clamps and missing gamma. > > > among the skeptic I have seen a behavior which is the "black an white"... > they prove something is not perfect, then conlude you can ignore it, and > since nothing is perfect they can ignore all... if precision is not good, > the the result is null... they don't know what is grey. it is a tactic, but > also a paradigm as they think in a paradigm where thing have some given > precision and they cannot think out of that... > simpler people can adapt their precision and their conclusions, instead of > dismiss all once the precision is below the standard. > > as I say, LENR will be accepted when a kid of 5 would be able to ridicule > a PhD who deny reality. not before. >
