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Your Theory is Correct as Long as You Believe in it
We love theories — about the world, about ourselves, about the future, about the past.
Half of them are false and the other half can’t be proved right.
But that’s ok, we need theories, without them we’ll be lost.
Even with the wrong map you can still find the right places. Ask Christopher Columbus.
Theories are just mental models to interpret reality. Reality keeps proving us wrong but we insist. We need to get to the bottom of things, to find out the theory of everything, to understand reality and to discover the ultimate reason for us being here.
We need to answer all the whys with theories, models, and narratives. We need to fill the gap of the unknown with something, anything.
We know eating too much makes us fat. Why? We don’t know. Plenty of theories that have been proven wrong and new ones that will be wrong. But the fact remains.
It would be easier to know how to survive instead of trying to find out the meaning of it all.
Evolution, Global Warming, Relativity are examples of theories that, although are most likely true, there is no definitive proof for them. There is no such thing as proof. Not in the scientific sense anyway.
