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The way I feel is that being open minded and intellectually free is great, its very interesting and you can learn many cool things. However once you've learned
by eigenket 3y ago
The way I feel is that being open minded and intellectually free is great, its very interesting and you can learn many cool things. However once you've learned those things its also important to be clear about them.
Lets take something like evolution as an example. There isn't really anything to be gained by trying to straight up falsify evolution any more, we're very very confident that it happens. The "right" approach is to stop being "open" to the idea that evolution doesn't happen, but instead be "open" to exploring interesting and cool stuff based one evolution (how does it happen, what drives it, what are the mechanisms etc). Being "open", in the sense of thinking about evolution not being a real thing, actually closes you to exploring these cool ideas based on evolution.
- keepamovin 3y agoI totally agree! Like using what you've already learned as a scaffold that you can then climb higher on. I don't think you should limit stuff with that, but that you can then go further is great! Yes, but I also think your example, is unintentionally more nuanced than intended perhaps--in that evolution being a thing does not preclude intelligent design. The simple counter is we are already intelligently designing new organisms which themselves were developed at least in part, and continue to develop, at least in part, through the contribution of evolution. I think that's also a nuanced point: once you learn one thing, and it has good explanatory power, it doesn't have to be the only thing in operation. We can take that further and say, it's possible that humans are the product of intelligent design to some extent. One way to phrase that is: ETs manipulated DNA in already evolving primates to create homo sapiens sapiens