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James E. Arnold's picture

Linear vs divurgent processes

I have a deep concern about the lockstep movement towards highly similar modalities of thinking. Unfortunately, when you have a very high degree of conformity and consensus, you do not have the span of thinking to solve problems that require diverse thinking. The Einstens, Edisons, George Washington Carvers, and Rimski korsakovs are not part of a highly regimented way of doing things. In order to solve looming scientific crisis it is absolutely necessary to also develop minds capable of exponential leaps. Without tolerance we are in danger of weeding out the unbiased child who anounces the emperor has no clothes. Our nakedness reflects our intolerance.

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