> There have been societies that couldn't even think about that problem. This sounds like what Iain Banks referred to as an OCP - an Outside Context Problem [0

> There have been societies that couldn't even think about that problem. This sounds like what Iain Banks referred to as an OCP - an Outside Context Problem [0]. As TFA describes: "Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes." I suspect the cautious thinkers are always alert, to the point of being hyper-sensitive, to this risk - manifesting in imposter syndrome through excessively cautious, highly qualified caveats around their messages, etc. We circle back towards a generic DK effect, while introspection leads to further introspection. [0] http://outsidecontextproblem.org/ http://outsidecontextproblem.org/