Thread by @IntuitMachine

There's is a massive asymmetric information gap between knowing a theory is wrong and discovering the correct theory. Becoming aware of flaws is just the first step in a very long journey. But if you never see the flaws, you never take the journey and thus never get anywhere.

This is a double-edged sword. So we see flaws that are simply not there and take a journey, towards discovery, that is along a deceptive path. The path where one sticks to because it's the one without forks. The one that continually confirms one's own biases.

Persistence requires a level of naivety, this is what keeps us motivated. This is because if we knew how long the journey was before we began, then we might have never started it at all.

Innovation requires the rejection of what is assumed. But it is hard to know what is implicitly assumed because it is baked into our language and our education. Both influence our thoughts and thus we must be always cognizant of the biases that it introduces.

We cannot individually break out of the echo chamber of our own thoughts. Evolution has primed us to bias our thinking to confirm ourselves. A Feynman has said, 'we are the easiest person to fool'.

The only solution is to realize that there are other minds that can reveal the incorrectness of your own language, education and thus thinking. This can only be uncovered if you are willing to honestly engage in conversation.

All innovative discoveries are found through interaction. The most powerful general intelligence that exists isn't the intelligence in our own heads. Rather, it is in the intelligence that exists in the interactions of many independent minds.

It is indeed striking that when you discover the bias of our noun-centric modern language. It's all too easy to become a reductionist that decouples interaction from the whole. But the richness of reality is a consequence of interactions and not static things.

Thus we have come full circle. Language is not a static thing. Language is interaction and as a consequence a living thing. A living thing that "is created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.” ;-)

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