{"id":640304,"date":"2024-10-11T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=640304"},"modified":"2024-10-11T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:45:10","slug":"taking-it-back-to-first-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/11\/taking-it-back-to-first-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking it back to first principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Always trying to rethink the questions; what is the purpose of it, what <em>should<\/em> it be for? And also, what does it or what <em>should<\/em> it symbolize? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, Seneca had the brilliant idea that we should call it a race car. But if a race car is not actually used for racing, just every day commuting from point A to point B\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Then trying to purchase a race car if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t desire to race it is actually not a good idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The first rule in science is that nothing is 100% definitive?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> if you are a real scientist, and truly observed the scientific method, the whole ethos is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I must forever be skeptical, both of myself and others because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a chance I might be wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And also, according to science, there is no such thing as 100% definitive proof. For example, if in the scientific method you could only ever prove correlation not causation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You have never really \u00e2\u20ac\u0153proven\u00e2\u20ac\u009d anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> for example, CO2 levels, carbon emissions whatever, you can forever show that CO2 levels and global warning are correlated, but statistically it is actually impossible to show that increase CO2 levels directly <em>causes<\/em> global warming. Because it is not a simple equation; not a simple scalar equation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always trying to rethink the questions; what is the purpose of it, what should it be for? And also, what does it or what should it symbolize? For example, Seneca had the brilliant idea \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640317,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640304\/revisions\/640317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}