You See What Your Knowledge Tells You To See
Paradigms are the mental infrastructures that connect and unify the mental models through which we experience the world. Because paradigms, like religious beliefs, can become so deeply rooted in our identities, they can be very hard to change. Sometimes they are hard to change for scientific reasons, but the most powerful form of resistance is personal, emotional, and thoroughly unscientific. Throughout history scientists and scholars have resisted changing paradigms when their egos, reputations, and incomes depended on defending them.
See post: Paradigm Inertia: Unscientific Learning |
(See post: Paradigm Inertia: Oppenheimer) |
The same is true for reading science. The unscientific, self-serving, defense of established reading science paradigms is the main impediment to our progress in reading.
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