Cosmologic philosophy: more comment on current dead end (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, July 02, 2018, 15:25 (2336 days ago) @ dhw

TONY: All creatures play, and through play we learn about socialization, our environment, what works and what doesn't. But this was already written, and explains it elegantly:
Psychology of Play

DHW: No quarrel with any of this! I thought you were suggesting that scientists should adopt the same attitude as children at play, drop their assumptions and use their imagination. I think they all use their imagination, but some allow their imagination to be directed by their assumptions!

Dropping assumptions IS part of it, as is dropping the mentality of work, careers, publishing, all that other BS that gets in the way of their mind doing its job. A lot of the bias that they have comes from career building problems, not science problems.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.