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Curing Crime's avatar

Great read! I used to start my middle and high school lessons with optical illusions, sound ones (those songs played backwards with "matching" lyrics, and more. In short, on day 1 the argument was your senses and your intuitions can easily lead you astray. Science, while totally imperfect, and in many ways reflecting social concerns, mores, prejudices, is at least a systematic attempt to discipline our senses -- to try and avoid misconstruing reality and to try avoid believing in illusions. It was a student favorite.

Then we would march on with science class... with occasional tangents on how we do think we know...

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John's avatar

Marvellous. Thanks Jason.

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