[ExI] us

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] us

 

>…We attained our neurological maturity around age 25.  Before that, just how dumb were we?  Were we very impressionable?  Able to be led around by older and wise others?  Or were we just a little bit of an independent thinker all along?

 

>...  Of that that stuck, how much of it was thoughtless. believed just because we were told?   bill w

 

 

 

Billw, a related (or perhaps the same) question: how many of us reading this post recall being in elementary school, doing a math problem (this relates especially well to math) getting a different answer from the crowd, including the teacher, but having every confidence we are right?  

 

I remember doing this in college with a physics problem, and… I was right.  Oh what a glorious day was that.  These are the kinds of experiences that cause born iconoclasts to love math: there is an objective answer.  Objective Boolean right or wrong proof is available, math and physics know nothing and care nothing about opinions or views.

 

spike

 

 

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