Does irrationality fuel innovation?
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Does irrationality fuel innovation?
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Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#2Cognitive dissonance is extremely "expensive". Deliberately suspending one's beliefs takes very good storytelling and/or resources corresponding to a movie budget. All that so that each person could suspend their beliefs for a couple of hours.
For the kind of long-term emotional investment it takes to do research or develop something new, one (typically) needs to have "buy-in" at an emotional level (aka irrationality). Few humans can invest a lot of their time/effort/resources on things they believe are probably not worth the trouble; sustained dissonance would probably cause burnout.
Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#3The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw.
Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#4Yes but it also fuels failure. The lines that separate what we know is possible, what is actually possible but we don't know it and what isn’t at all— are very very fine.
Fools often rush in and are successful because they didn't know they shouldn’t have been able to do something. But more often than not, I think they’re met with disaster simply because the skillset they lack is the same one they need to be successful.
Conversely, sometimes competent people are restrained by existing opinion structures.
Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#5Ignorance can fuel innovation. It can help to not know what you can't know or do.
Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#6Cognitive dissonance is extremely "expensive". Deliberately suspending one's beliefs takes very good storytelling and/or resources corresponding to a movie budget. All that so that each person could suspend their beliefs for a couple of hours. For the kind of long-term emotional investment it takes to do research or develop something new, one (typically) needs to have "buy-in" at an emotional level (aka irrationality…
"...sustained dissonance would probably cause burnout."
Or religion.
Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#7Ignorance can fuel innovation. It can help to not know what you can't know or do.
Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#8Cognitive dissonance is extremely "expensive". Deliberately suspending one's beliefs takes very good storytelling and/or resources corresponding to a movie budget. All that so that each person could suspend their beliefs for a couple of hours. For the kind of long-term emotional investment it takes to do research or develop something new, one (typically) needs to have "buy-in" at an emotional level (aka irrationality…
"...sustained dissonance would probably cause burnout." Or religion.
Or lack thereof.
Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#9Ignorance can fuel innovation. It can help to not know what you can't know or do.
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Re: Does irrationality fuel innovation?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
"...sustained dissonance would probably cause burnout." Or religion.
Or lack thereof.
Our innate sense of justice, of how things ought to be, clashes with how things are. Thus we have divine retribution. We ought not die, but we do, so after we die we live supernaturally. Dissonance can give way to religion, generally speaking.