Black Swan - I am living with the book over past many weeks - as I read it, it gives me an almost fantastic feeling of liberation from my own knowledge. It also verifies many observations and nullifies many knowledge management theories.
Platonicity has created a fantastic way of narrating things with causality - it has taken the human mind to where it is, it has taken us to science and engineering to causes and effects, yet we dont know at any time - is this action is done definitely, all the time, accurately the result witll be that.
What to do then?
Post Facto knowledge is always constructed narrative. Taleb in Black Swan states, " .... History appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was - or is"...
This kills the Data based inferences that our SIX SIGMA FRIENDS are used to force us to follow. Dear friends - Observe and create more experiences and may be we can be richer in our solutions rather than ask people to collect data, than create data Analytics!
What a waste is Normal Distribution? as per Taleb in Black Swan.
If you are not reading the book, pleas start it today. (By the way, I am not the author's representative :)
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I agree with you Navneeth. Actually, i would think that the Platonic viewpoint is not so strictly linear causality, as is the modern one. THe keyword being linear ... And, this is something where we in India, as also the rest of Asia differs from the west ... We tend to look at causality as a web, rather than as a linear phenomenon, and this is something which you have brought out in this post.
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