Le 2013-03-24 19:57, Everton Zanella Alvarenga a écrit :
"The main difference between science and stage magic is that in
science you
make your mistakes in public. You show them off, so that everybody
can
learn from them--not just yourself. This way, you get the benefit of
everybody else's experience, and not just your own idiosyncratic path
through the space of mistakes. This, by the way, is what makes us so
much
smarter than every other species. It is not so much that our brains
are
bigger or more powerful, but that we share the benefits that our
individual
brains have won by their individual histories of trial and error.
I agree with the last sentence. Thus said I also think that science can
teach us more relevant way to think our world when we make abstraction
of our ego. Any thought about how smarter/greater/special/different
human are, will just burden scientific investigation. I don't mean we
should make total abstraction of ego, you need ego to sustain empathy,
and without empathy reason is useless in codemning harasment, torture,
murder and so on.
Now, why don't we take mistakes as a chance to refine our thought
model, or even make a breakthrough in it? Well, there's this cult of
"performance", and most people seems to prefer doing nothing than doing
things and looks ridiculous. There's a famous quote, attributed to
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, on this topic: "It's not because things are
difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture
that they are difficult".
--
Association Culture-Libre
http://www.culture-libre.org/
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