Antworten zum Universum

In this world, there are 2 kinds (I’m lying, but for simplicity’s sake) of people – thinkers and doers. I fancy myself as a Thinker, with a capital T (you know, to make a difference between normal people who think, and people who think professionally). I like to think of myself as a Figure-Outer, the guy who sits and think, and figure out solutions to a problem, whether real world or theoretical. Well, this would put me in a category people usually associate with dusty old tweed-wearing professors – a theorist.

This puts me at odds with people who consider themselves realist¹, who upon hearing a reasoning with a theoretical framework (typically a model of some sort) immediately cries “reality is much more complex than that!”. Ah, that is where I suppose I am different. Although I consider myself a Thinker, I don’t consider myself Platonic.

You see, once upon a time, there was this guy, he was called Plato. He used to think that just by thinking alone, one can solve the mysteries of the world, and he’d stay away from the real world as much as possible. While that is true, and it is in fact, the power of human imagination that came up with E = mc², that equation would be absolutely useless without any evidence that it works in the real world (and yes, it did work, with 2 very shocking and horrifying displays of power known as Hiroshima and Nagasaki). It is for this reason, I heartily support efforts like evidence based medicine. Continue reading I, Thinker; I Tinker

1. not to be confused with people who subscribe to one or more of the many schools of philosophical realism [↩]