Excellent. There are two things I like to add: You come to the same conclusion, just much more logical, as the social media community with the discussion of "labels" that recognized labels often are in the way, rather than helpful, except when you need terminology as transport for thoughts and communication and there is always the temptation to associate more with them. The other is that we like to believe in our mental models. Our model of "now" is around 80 ms in the past, plus/minus depending on what exactly you measure. We believe to experience present tense, knowing no human ever has, because we like to believe our models are true. If we did not, how could we trust predictions based on them? Science is no different, except we revise scientific models if facts contradict - well, we try to at least, or we use the terms outliers, anomalies, mistakes, noise, defects and disorders. Engineers know that. It's our constant battle. So you think anybody knows why a rocket arrived at Mars? Despite all efforts, we know how much trouble is in each and every scientific looking model. Hence the celebration if things work out - knowing many reasons why they don't have to, including knowing there are things we don't know of not knowing.
Excellent. There are two things I like to add: You come to the same conclusion, just much more logical, as the social media community with the discussion of "labels" that recognized labels often are in the way, rather than helpful, except when you need terminology as transport for thoughts and communication and there is always the temptation to associate more with them. The other is that we like to believe in our mental models. Our model of "now" is around 80 ms in the past, plus/minus depending on what exactly you measure. We believe to experience present tense, knowing no human ever has, because we like to believe our models are true. If we did not, how could we trust predictions based on them? Science is no different, except we revise scientific models if facts contradict - well, we try to at least, or we use the terms outliers, anomalies, mistakes, noise, defects and disorders. Engineers know that. It's our constant battle. So you think anybody knows why a rocket arrived at Mars? Despite all efforts, we know how much trouble is in each and every scientific looking model. Hence the celebration if things work out - knowing many reasons why they don't have to, including knowing there are things we don't know of not knowing.