Saturday, March 18

"Try to figure out what’s wrong with the simplest explanations."

i thought it was not normal.
you know, that experience where you hear a strange word for the first time, and then soon afterward you hear the same word again. it's like hearing a word for the first time makes it appear everywhere.

dilbert's scott adams in God's Debris says it is normal:
"Your brain can only process a tiny portion of your environment. It risks being overwhelmed by the volume of information that bombards you every waking moment. Your brain compensates by filtering out the 99.9 percent of your environment that doesn’t matter to you. When you
took notice of the word fescue for the first time and rolled it around in your head, your mind tuned itself to the word. That’s why you heard it again so soon."

true.
what's more interesting of the book, the thought experiment, is that you're not expected to believe anything it shares. but it does make you think. and most of the time i think it's right- from the curious bees analogy to probability to idea-persons and something similar to my do-nothing thinking. you may download the e-book free from the Dilbert website or from the publisher.

and it explains everything so simply using what you already know. but then again it warns that "in this complicated world, the simplest explanation is usually dead wrong."
lisnin to King of the World - Songs for a New World
sortof readin Sickchased
feelin kinda ready for the final exams

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