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It might be that our modern thinkers are missing the forest for the trees because they are overwhelmed with information about their environment. I don't have a
by yters 8y ago
It might be that our modern thinkers are missing the forest for the trees because they are overwhelmed with information about their environment.
I don't have any issue with the current consensus, it just seems incorrect reasoning to say consensus is convergence to truth. Why isn't consensus just groupthink, a notoriously bad way to arrive at the truth?
- canhascodez 8y agoThe current consensus is the closest that science gets to "truth". Depending on your definition of "groupthink" (which seems like a deliberately pejorative term), either that describes most categories of knowledge, or we can suggest that the difference is that there is a rigorous methodology and system of verification for these beliefs.
- yters 8y agoConsensus does not have the best track record in science. Much better is the actual evidence and experimentation instead of what people who call themselves "scientists" think about the evidence.
- canhascodez 8y agoConsensus is the track record of science. Observations are not theories.