Aquesta setmana fa set anys, David Foster Wallace va argumentar que "aprendre a pensar realment significa aprendre a exercir un cert control sobre com i què penses". No obstant això, en una època de sensacionalisme incessant, pseudociència i una carrera implacable per dreceres, respostes ràpides i bales de plata, saber què pensar sembla cada cop més difícil. Creem eines com The Baloney Detection Kit i creem animacions meravelloses per ensenyar als nens sobre el pensament crític, però l'art de pensar críticament és un hàbit que requereix un cultiu acurat i coherent. En el seu notable assaig titulat "La càrrega de l'escepticisme", publicat originalment al número de tardor de 1987 de Skeptical Inquirer, Carl Sagan, sempre l'explicador articulat i apassionat, va capturar la dualitat i l'equilibri osmòtic del pensament crític de manera meravellosa:
Carl Sagan: Sobre l'equilibri Entre l'escepticisme I l'obertura
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"Em sembla que el que es demana és un equilibri exquisit entre dues necessitats enfrontades: l'escrutini més escèptic de totes les hipòtesis que se'ns serveixen i alhora una gran obertura a noves idees. Òbviament, aquests dos modes de pensament estan en certa tensió. Però si només pots exercir un d'aquests modes, sigui el que sigui, estàs en profunds problemes.
Si només sou escèptics, no hi ha idees noves que us arriben. Mai s'aprèn res de nou. Et converteixes en un vell vell convençut que la ximpleria domina el món. (Per descomptat, hi ha moltes dades que us donen suport.) Però de tant en tant, potser una vegada en cent casos, una idea nova resulta ser a la vista, vàlida i meravellosa. Si tens massa l'hàbit de ser escèptic sobre tot, ho trobaràs a faltar o ho sentiràs ressentit i, de qualsevol manera, t'aturaràs el camí de la comprensió i el progrés.
D'altra banda, si estàs obert fins al punt de la credulitat i no tens ni una mica de sentit escèptic en tu, llavors no pots distingir els útils dels sense valor. Si totes les idees tenen la mateixa validesa, estàs perdut, perquè aleshores, em sembla, cap idea no té cap validesa.
Algunes idees són millors que altres. La maquinària per distingir-los és una eina imprescindible per tractar amb el món i sobretot per afrontar el futur. I és precisament la barreja d'aquests dos modes de pensament el que és fonamental per a l'èxit de la ciència".
Aquí teniu una addició exquisida a aquestes famoses definicions de la ciència.
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when I said 'sick' I mean a bad feeling my friends hid in G+.
I can explain another story when I had two people who worked my store they were different clans but same community. So in msn I was chatting two of online one talked bad about the other one and I agreed then the other one talked and I greed yet two of them thought I belong to one's. So if you again look the first version of the story and the last one you can know it was meant immediate actions.
Anyway, it was great you suggested in today's dailygood though I would like friends of that community to ask and see their points. When I saw some people talking Hitler I could call myself Hitler. And some people would feel hurt. I recently learnt his history. It is like that.
Though that we talked, What I don't like is what people I socialized perceived about me. I am very sure it must made them sick but I didn't know but I sensed something was incorrect when one praised a divine. So I lacked sobriety and I didn't know that the buddy knew something about woman who spoke up. But I tell you I know it could hurt innocent people's but you have to follow the facts that I explained last week. That art was though of ten minutes on desktop and what it says except the money was meant immediate actions. Yes some sort of the story was circulated but those statements were not in me. It is very hard someone not an artist can think that.
So you need to understand the theory as wise and not come as a cranky. I really couldn't know where enmity came from when you send me frightening dailygood. If you could say that something was disgusting I could have solved and cleanness would have worked. You know, I am honesty.
This beautiful article by Carl Sagan gives us a new insight into the pattern of human thinking.
Yours Sincerely
Muralikrishna.P.