The need for certainty is strong, in fact it's arguable it's biological in nature. After all, as a relatively harmless primate in the wild, you needed to be *absolutely sure* that wasn't a predator in the bushes, otherwise it's the end of your genetic line.
The problem is that need for certainty can get applied to areas where certainty will always be in doubt, and as Mark Twain put it, "It ain't what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so".
In the age that follows, we'll become comfortable with uncertainty. Or else.
You put it perfectly.
The need for certainty is strong, in fact it's arguable it's biological in nature. After all, as a relatively harmless primate in the wild, you needed to be *absolutely sure* that wasn't a predator in the bushes, otherwise it's the end of your genetic line.
The problem is that need for certainty can get applied to areas where certainty will always be in doubt, and as Mark Twain put it, "It ain't what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so".
In the age that follows, we'll become comfortable with uncertainty. Or else.