(January 14, 2013 at 11:17 am)Brian37 Wrote: Our species flaw is that we did not evolve to question the gaps we fill in because of our ability to have flawed perceptions.
The upside is that we do have the ability to question, but most of the time gap filling is our intellectually lazy way out.
I would disagree a little. I think a significant part of our evolution is that we evolved to be part of a troop of animals and therefore it was useful that different members of the pack think in different ways. One approach is not intrinsically better than another, and what worked well solving the last problem, might not work as well for the next.
Until we have all the answers we have to fill in parts. to make use of the knowledge as a group.
The problem with the goddidit mob is they do not want to recognise parts of what they thought they knew, were just bits that had to be filled in at the time to make a sensible proposition, and now that we know better we can reconnect our knowledge with a better tested proposition.
