Soulkeeper wrote: > Because the rational answer (and how to reach it) matters. Even when the > question is trivial. > > > > Okay, then please explain me this: If the first flying machine builders > didn't expect their tweaks to make a change, then -why did they do > them-?
Since you asked: It's NOT rational in the sense that you seem to want it to be (why would any sane person try something if they expect it to fail?)....It's because they are/were insatiably curious---a trait shared by the most brilliant researchers and creatives. They neither believe in their own pre-conceptions nor anyone else's. The only way they can be truly convinced that something doesn't work is to actually try it. To their way of thinking, the cases (either expecting it will or it won't) are much more equal than the way in which most of us would think. Expecting that something won't work is, in these individuals' minds, vastly different from proving it won't----for them it's the same process as proving that something will [work]. They're just driven to find out. Furthermore, sometimes during that process of finding out the "tweak", indeed, doesn't work, a new insight is gained or new information uncovered. Pure researchers have an intuitive understanding of this and follow lots of these, supposedly, silly paths for no other reason than to simply find out where the possible tangents may lead, irrespective of the final result. It takes a rather unique and different personality to think and "do" this way--some would call it irrational and/or eccentric. And, while this leads to long stretches of going down dead-ends, blind alleys (and plane crashes) and, what others might call time-wasting, it's often the way to arrive at true genius. It's an interesting trait, since many of the most brilliant innovators have rather large and rough-edged egos. But, one of the more charming inconsistencies in all that is that they seem to lack the arrogance to believe in their own assumptions and pre-conceptions without self-proof. On a more mundane level, how many of us might have spouses who are less than mechanically inclined? And who amongst us hasn't had the experience, when some gadget goes on the fritz, of said person---who in, our VERY humble opinion is ignorant---saying "why don't you try it this way"? Know-it-all spouse says, "it'll never work". But, because we love and indulge, we say,"alright, I'll give it a try, but it won't work, I can guaranty you that." And, then, it works. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94770 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
