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People spend all kinds of time digging around for information to make a decision. I recently was speaking with a former newspaper publisher and college journalism professor and asked him a question that I thought he had a wonderful answer for. Take a minute to listen.
Dean Rae is a former Publisher, Editor, Journalism Professor and all around wonderful man.
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And my former neighbor. Wonderful man
The basic problem is that information is no substitute for experience. Bias is not a property of information, but rather it is a property of _experience_ (as Nietzsche said: to view with bias is to view with the benefit of experience) which is merely _expressed_ in information (as Wittgenstein said: what can be seen cannot be said). It is _people_ that have bias, not information.
The problem is not that we have too much bias, but rather that we have too little. That is why we must look to new environments, not for more information, but instead for more experience.
Another problem is that we often don't have the courage to express what we have seen for ourself. Instead, we fill our heads with ideas attached to our insights, and express things we are not so sure of, but which are easier to say because the argument has been formed for us. Arguments are easier to express than experience. This decreases the total insight and meaning in the social system.
If we instead learned to express experience in a way that yields more experience, like in the form of a method for demonstration (that is, science), then we can give our ideas shared aesthetic significance. This increases the total insight and meaning in the social system.
The basic problem is that information is no substitute for experience. Bias is not a property of information, but rather it is a property of _experience_ (as Nietzsche said: to view with bias is to view with the benefit of experience) which is merely _expressed_ in information (as Wittgenstein said: what can be seen cannot be said). It is _people_ that have bias, not information.
The problem is not that we have too much bias, but rather that we have too little. That is why we must look to new environments, not for more information, but instead for more experience.
Another problem is that we often don't have the courage to express what we have seen for ourself. Instead, we fill our heads with ideas attached to our insights, and express things we are not so sure of, but which are easier to say because the argument has been formed for us. Arguments are easier to express than experience. This decreases the total insight and meaning in the social system.
If we instead learned to express experience in a way that yields more experience, like in the form of a method for demonstration (that is, science), then we can give our ideas shared aesthetic significance. This increases the total insight and meaning in the social system.