| May. 13th, 2008 @ 12:39 pm (no subject) |
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I really like this interview with Robert Burton on the neuropsyschology of Certainty...or Belief...or both. It's promoting his new book On Being Certain, and I think it's something I may want to pick up for myself.
I, of course, adore that he has decided that to say "I don't know" is incredibly freeing. My only issue is to worry that it may be an excuse to lazy brains. Like the whole postmodern thing of 'no such thing as truth'. Or however they phrase it. I agree with that statement, with qualifications - but its possible validity is no excuse for ceasing to look for the closest approximation to it one can get (which means constantly checking and re-checking and cross-checking it, and occasionally coming to a new understanding of it, of course). |
