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visual representation of me coming up with excuses for not writing well
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Everything written is wrong. It is only natural that almost everything
ever written is wrong. Language itself is not perfect, let alone
interpretations of language or grammatical errors. How many perfect
sentences have ever been written. Let alone paragraphs. Let alone an
entire chapter. Let alone an entire book. There are errors in thinking.
There are errors in scientific studies, errors in reporting, errors of
shortsightedness, errors in the scientific method itself and its
interpretations. And yet despite our fumbling attempts to communicate,
great leaps in reason have been made and remarkable inventions. This is
in short a poor attempt to justify mistakes and rugged edges. This is
an acknowledgement of the reality of large blind spots, biases, and
likely irrational circular forms of reasoning that don't even have
scientific names yet such as hindsight bias. It seems not enough authors
tell and explain this. It's a point that should be reiterated until
dull: a person's best work is their best hunch. The reason scientific
reasoning often fails by examining the objective world is because it
makes little to no attempt to account for the subjective mind of its
audience. Therefore every text is a go-by, when accounting for the
nearly endless variables of individual subjective human experience. By
speaking in declarative statements that leave no room for variance or
interpretation, people can close the very minds they wish to open. You
see this in the zealotry of partisan politics (social political and moral
extremes, polarization), for people who live by one book: people who
have found not an answer, but
the answer. This system may work for
people to a degree, but does not allow for fluid change which is what an
active mind does. Scientists and philosophers are often speaking with
wisdom gained through their own personal experience, and declare what
works for them to be what should be what works for all. This is why
knowledge should always be questioned, with the reader or listener
having the final say. A more worthwhile author might tell you his or her
hunches or show you a path, but the only sane way forward is when the reader decides if it's traveled.
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