| Logical people(usually called Smart people) could be really really stupid. Einstein as a young fellow certainly did not change Planck's mind, and Heisenberg did not change Einstein's. Doesn't matter if we talk about Magellan, Newton or Darwin. They changed the world one death at a time. The reason is that logic is based on very few things(usually binary statements, true or false) and it can focus only on those things. They can dissect and understand deeply something very small and dead(static) but could have real problems understanding the whole system(big and alive[dynamic]). You only can focus on 5,6 things at a single time and need to invest a ton of time to get results. The world is not pure binary, like mathematics usually study it,the world have shades of gray and billions of things interacting all the time. In fact, without tools like cheap access to books that make it possible to complete the work someone else has done,and networks that share the knowledge like Universities, cities or the Internet, this process of analysis is so slow that it is completely useless. For understanding complete systems intuition is just much better and faster. Because it is an stochastic process that could integrate millions of things at once. For changing your mind you need proper training in the scientific process, and it takes a lot of work and effort to do, because it goes against our primal instincts. You need to be humble and train a beginner's mind all the time. The fact is that most people believe they are logical while everybody else is dogmatic. But they are not. They can not do something as basic exercise as proper debate in which they believe and defend only temporarly the opposite of what they really believe. Really logical people can see their own flaws as a human(illusions and biases) and only then compensate for them. I bet you,hilyen, believe your thinking is logic based. Hah! |