To Accept or Reject the Risk of Error

predictions were tested, one must seek out such findings” alludes to the famous scientist, Albert Einstein. Barry uses this allusion to Einstein in an attempt to show that if a famous scientist from the past did not accept his own theory until his predictions were tested and were successful, then scientists can use this same theory of not trusting something until it is proven to be successful. Barry wants

That “if you develop the absolute sense of certainty… you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything…” Developing this sense of certainty is important, but usually only for the smaller decisions/actions in life, like being certain about how to do question five on that math test. But for the larger decisions/actions, the ones that really matter, everyone should entertain their certainty with some doubt. I like to think that using that measure of doubt to rationalize my opinions and decisions stops me from saying or doing anything without knowledge of the potential consequences. For example, I was hanging out with my friends, and we started gossiping. Sooner or later one rumor came up about a girl in our friend group. Some of my friends believed the rumor as soon as they heard it, and most likely kept on spreading it around the school. But I had some doubts about the story, so to be safe, I didn’t talk about it to anyone else. And it turned out that the rumor was completely false. By using doubt to rationalize a situation/decision, one can be certain that they did the right

conscious. If we, humans, are truly biological machines and we are at the same time conscious then I

The author says that to be a scientist, we must have the courage to face doubt, and he backs up his idea with a 19th century French physiologist, Claude Bernard, “Science teaches us to doubt.” Saying that a scientist must be open-minded to the fact that their findings are not always correct, the author describes Einstein’s process and how he goes about it. There is sense of knowledge that Claude Bernard seems to have as he is titled, “the great French Physiologist”. Also, the qualification and power that comes with Einstein’s name is known worldwide and clearly apparent. Both of these names and titles, which are very credible, come together to make Barry’s argument more

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true." - John Lilly

Consciousness refers to an individual’s self-awareness, both internally and external stimulus which include your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment. Your consciousness can constantly change from one conscious to another. The constant change in consciousness can also be referred to as “stream of conscious”. Awareness- its mechanism and function has

“There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as [we] are free to ask what [we] must, free to say what [we] think, free to think what [we] will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.”

They will go on most likely saying that on the passage,”A Series of Quotations about Error and Discovery,” on paragraph 26. It will talk about how we will apt to fall into the error of thinking, and how all scientists aim to seek the simplest of explanations. This means that if we make error we will not make it very far in what we are trying to do. Also if you do not make error everything will be a lot easier in what you

“A lie repeated often enough, eventually gains acceptance”-Josef Goebbels. What does this quote mean to you? Well, I think this quote means that things that are m`ade up and not the truth can become socially accepted so people think this is the truth. Growing up my mom taught me and my brother to never make up rumors because rumors can eventually become the “truth” although it is not really truthful people start to think it is.

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

to have people accept his hypothesis, as a fact is one of the major problems

For starters consciousness is a mystical network. It has several different extraordinary characters. One David Chalmers says it has a “unified and a differentiated character”, that he feels defines consciousness and makes it simple. But is it really that simplistic?? I mean consciousness is something everyone is aware of at every waking moment of life until death. Never has it been something

Consciousness allows a person to recognize their existence, and subsequently, to form their essence. The

Science has set values that must be upheld in the process of developing knowledge and as long as these values are maintained the facts will be accepted as knowledge.

or that death is not the end. There is no way to prove that this is