To Be Confused I – Physics (podcast)

Stream of Subconsciousness · May 6, 2022 · 27m

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”— Isaac Newton, physicist and theologianConfusionAllan Ropper says, in his book Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole (2014): “An understanding of confusion has yet to be operationalized... It is not, technically, a disease, but a syndrome, a collection of problems.”Confusion exists on an interesting spectrum. We have a rough idea of what it means to have no confusion and what it means to be entirely confused. But on closer inspection, a complete absence of confusion has much in common with being completely…