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I think this stems from the fact that other people's experiences are usually not enough to internalise something. You can tell me about it for hours, but unless
by dasboth 11y ago
I think this stems from the fact that other people's experiences are usually not enough to internalise something. You can tell me about it for hours, but unless I have a creative thought in the shower myself, I wont really know it to be true. Once I experience it for myself it'll feel like a genuine discovery even if other people have been doing it for millenia.
- pqs 11y agoYou're right. Each generation, each individual, in fact, must rediscover the wheel. The problem is that our world (science, media, etc.) is heavily biased towards novelty. Somehow, it is compulsory to explain everything as if it was a new discovery, a breakthrough, when it is older than walking (as we use to say in the Catalan language). I'm tired of reading article, after article, about new old things. People using a brain scanner to "discover" thinks we all know well. Maybe I should read just read old books and forget the media.