Udhay Shankar N wrote:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/all/1
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
Modern science is populated by expert insiders, schooled in narrow
disciplines. Researchers have all studied the same thick textbooks,
which make the world of fact seem settled. This led Kuhn, the
philosopher of science, to argue that the only scientists capable of
acknowledging the anomalies — and thus shifting paradigms and starting
revolutions — are “either very young or very new to the field.” In
other words, they are classic outsiders, naive and untenured. They
aren’t inhibited from noticing the failures that point toward new
possibilities.
Really nice article. The "acknowledging the anomalies" bit from Kuhn may
enable you to jump paradigms, which is very cool, but it also gets you a
lot of knives buried in your back. Acknowledge carefully. :)
Jim
