Hi:
There's an excellent TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation?language=en
The best explanation is the one currently accepted by science.
This pointed me to many books by Karl Popper and was the root cause of the two
axioms below my signature on this email.
Fundamentally all of science is provisional, i.e. there are no scientific facts. This allows room for improvement. and
is why civilization progressed post Enlightenment.
PS The above talk has much more meaning after reading Popper.
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Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html
axioms:
1. The extent to which you can fix or improve something will be limited by how
well you understand how it works.
2. Everybody, with no exceptions, holds false beliefs.
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This reminds of an interview I read somewhere, with a former RAF instructor who taught survival navigation techniques
for downed fighter pilots - no GPS or compass, just sun and stars. He said that one of frustrating parts of his job
was that with every new class he had to un-teach the idea drummed into them at school that the Earth goes around the
Sun, and not the other way round. The requisite skills came much faster to pilots who accepted the correction.
Steve
On 2018-07-18 1:51 PM, Jack Aubert wrote:
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If I were doing the curriculum I would reintroduce the geocentric view of the solar system to complement the
Copernican view.
Jack
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