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The Speed Of Science
The “Speed Of Science” looks like the race between Achilles and the tortoise, conceived by Zeno and described in Physics by Aristotle. Achilles impersonates Science, and the tortoise represents either Truth, or the problem at hand. In this renown paradox, Achilles can never reach the tortoise: every time he reaches the place where the tortoise was, the tortoise moved on a bit. The distance reduces at every step, but cannot eventually become zero. Whoever tried to approach reality with scientific methods, knows that for every amount of knowledge discovered, reality proves a little bit more complex than initially hypothesized, and Truth few steps farer.
2022-10-16
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Course: The Unbiased Bias
All of a sudden it seems like everybody feels very insecure about his own way of thinking and decision-making process. Biases are bad, beliefs are bad, thinking is bad, deciding is bad.
2021-07-22
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