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I found that talk quite interesting/thought provoking (still thinking about some parts years later), is something wrong with me as well?
by WanderPanda 4y ago
I found that talk quite interesting/thought provoking (still thinking about some parts years later), is something wrong with me as well?
- ramesh31 4y ago>is something wrong with me as well? Nah. It was just a very naive talk. Highly intelligent people without a philosophical education are prone to going off on these tangents where they independently rediscover ancient concepts through modern analogies in a roundabout half-baked way, and start thinking of themselves as gurus. What a proper study of philosophy teaches you is that you cannot, and will not ever, have a truly novel thought. It's all been said. And if you do happen to have one, it will be the result of an incredible dedicated effort and take a lifetime of work to prove it, building on the work of others. Not an hour long TED talk.