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Uncertainty Isn’t a Human Flaw, It’s a Feature of the World
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
themarginalian.org
Something can hold information only if its state could have been otherwise: A computer memory is useless if all the changes in its contents over time are predetermined in the factory. The user could store nothing in it. And the same holds if you replace ‘factory’ with the Big Bang.
Chiara Marletto • The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
But there are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder. It’s good to view reality as beyond our understanding, because it is.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Introducing uncertainty sometimes requires nothing more than letting go of the illusion of certitude.