Given that we’re sentient products of evolution, shouldn’t we expect a lot of variation in our thinking?
Finding solutions to real world problems often involve searching through a state space of possibilities that is too big and too complex to search systematically and exhaustively. Evolution optimizes searches in this context by using a random search with many trials: inherent variation among zillions of modular components.
Observing the world for 32-odd years, it appears to me that each human being is randomly imprinted with a way of thinking and a set of ideas to obsess about. (Einstein had a cluster of ideas that were extremely useful for 20th century physics, most people’s obsessions aren’t historically significant or necessarily coherent.)
“People are crazy, the world is mad. ”
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Given that we’re sentient products of evolution, shouldn’t we expect a lot of variation in our thinking?
Finding solutions to real world problems often involve searching through a state space of possibilities that is too big and too complex to search systematically and exhaustively. Evolution optimizes searches in this context by using a random search with many trials: inherent variation among zillions of modular components.
Observing the world for 32-odd years, it appears to me that each human being is randomly imprinted with a way of thinking and a set of ideas to obsess about. (Einstein had a cluster of ideas that were extremely useful for 20th century physics, most people’s obsessions aren’t historically significant or necessarily coherent.)