Comments on: Lies We Tell Kids http://www.complexitystudies.org/2008/05/25/lies-we-tell-kids/ metaphysics, philosophy, and a vision of the future Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:34:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: guenther http://www.complexitystudies.org/2008/05/25/lies-we-tell-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-1411 guenther Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:22:05 +0000 http://dao.complexitystudies.org/2008/05/25/lies-we-tell-kids/#comment-1411 Hi Ahmed, thanks for your thoughts. I would say that reshaping your beliefs continually is an improvement because in the course of your life you are exposed to lots of ideas/thoughts which may not have been present in your childhood environment. Think of Leibniz, Darwin, Turing, Einstein - whomever - these were truly great minds, and their ideas have not yet penetrated well into the public (often only in a distorted fashion) - so growing intellectually means reading about and trying to "rethink" the great ideas of these people. And this also means unlearning a lot of stuff which was only a local heuristic. Hi Ahmed,

thanks for your thoughts.

I would say that reshaping your beliefs continually is an improvement because in the course of your life you are exposed to lots of ideas/thoughts which may not have been present in your childhood environment.

Think of Leibniz, Darwin, Turing, Einstein – whomever – these were truly great minds, and their ideas have not yet penetrated well into the public (often only in a distorted fashion) – so growing intellectually means reading about and trying to “rethink” the great ideas of these people.

And this also means unlearning a lot of stuff which was only a local heuristic.

]]> By: Ahmed http://www.complexitystudies.org/2008/05/25/lies-we-tell-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-1410 Ahmed Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:38:16 +0000 http://dao.complexitystudies.org/2008/05/25/lies-we-tell-kids/#comment-1410 I absolutley agree with most of the article's content, although i still have one discretion, that is to say: if one was free to revaluate his entire life's teachings upon reaching adulthood then what would be his tools especially since most of his logic and intellect is derived from (according to the article) potentially ill-based intel. So if left to his own discretion an adult is merely a child himself in the sense that he has no original tools for these tools do not exist. Only learnt behaviour is actually sufficiently developed to handle such complex matters. I absolutley agree with most of the article’s content, although i still have one discretion, that is to say: if one was free to revaluate his entire life’s teachings upon reaching adulthood then what would be his tools especially since most of his logic and intellect is derived from (according to the article) potentially ill-based intel. So if left to his own discretion an adult is merely a child himself in the sense that he has no original tools for these tools do not exist. Only learnt behaviour is actually sufficiently developed to handle such complex matters.

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