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Aaaarg. I don't normally take part in those aaarguments. I'm a scientist (or at least that's my training, and has been a good part of the working life). At a time I would have argued similarly to those people on Beyond Human. I don't waste my energy. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. If the teacher shows up too early, he's just adding noise. That doesn't mean the teacher doesn't look in from time to time to see if the student is ready. I work alongs the lines of advice. People love advice, but only if they asked for it first. Remember some people asking are only looking for confirmations of their own decisions, they're not really asking.




Iam2,

Yeah, you once tried to remind me of this, but only very recently did I fully appreciate the wisdom of not needing to defend science to those who are not ready to appreciate its fullness. I guess I use to be someone who cared too much. I use to be the guy who wouldn't hesitate to jump into the river to try to save someone who's drowning, even if he didn't want to be saved. But after many failed attempts at such heroics, I've inadvertently "graduated" to a new level of detachment. In some sense, it's sad, because now I find myself not caring as much anymore. It's like when a doctor or nurse is around death so much that he or she becomes desensitized to it. But, alas, that is the lesson that the universe had in store for me to learn, and where there was once turmoil and trouble, there is now only peace and serenity. It is funny how we always learn lessons which we most need to learn, but in a way which we least expect.

Best to you, from one scientist to another.

HF