The Power of What If: Embracing The Joyful Right of Doubt
Explore the concept of doubt and its significance in human thought, as we delve into the idea of 'what if' scenarios and their importance in decision-making. Discover how doubt allows us to consider counterfactuals and maintain our unique human perspective, separate from other animals.
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it's okay to leave your trumpet on the bus a kind
stranger will call you and make sure you get it
back this is the rule of trumpets it doesn't
work with other instruments though believe
me I've tried you don't have to believe me you
don't have to believe anyone that's your joyful
right as a human in fact we're the only animal
that doubts so you might say it's your duty if
you wish Humanity to remain separate from the
other animals those naive trusting fools doubt
is powerful because it lets us live with the idea
of a counterfactual and that's important because
what if it wasn't that's always an important
question to consider no matter how much your
co-workers consider the matter settled and just
want to end this meeting to go to lunch but have
you considered Reuben what if it wasn't that's
right sit back down I can do this all day yeah
I mean I'm just like whatever I've been a Neil
since laosi like uh these JY come lately and
don't know what it's like to believe in nothing in
fact try it spend today responding to all queries
but what if it wasn't have a nice day but what if
it wasn't would you like fries with that but what
if it wasn't I think you're going to be in for an
interesting time but then again what if it wasn't
it's good to take a thought experiment out into
the real world for a spin from time to time keeps
it fresh and stretches out the hip flexors ideas
have hip flexors too and if you think a sedentary
lifestyle is killing us oh boy you should watch an
idea try to run a mile Presidential Fitness Test
test indeed maybe that's what will fix all the
school's Presidential Fitness Test of the mind
but what would a v sit and reach look like for an
idea and of course we have to consider but what if
it wasn't should it be a q sit and reach instead
where you reach for a box of Q-tips but resist
sticking them in your ear especially if you just
had a shower let that water sit and just think
about what you've done there's no reason that
means that I've never seen a comment section more
polarized than when someone asked the audience
engineering subreddit how do you keep your ears
clean wars were fought and lost over whether
it's a good idea to stick a small wooden stick
in your ear canal next to your brain and I hope
to invite that energy here today the real answer
as we all know is you probably shouldn't but you
will but of course what if you didn't I'm Western
toilet Welly well well me little druggies of
course a kind stranger will call you and make
sure they give it back and what not on my watch
bartenders of the future I don't know what to say
then when some someone then when someone asked the
audio engineering subreddit then when someone
asked the audio engineering subred didn't like
someone I'm trapped would you like whoa
where'd that person come from it's good to
take a it's going to take a spin hey sit and
spin the real answer as we all know is what
you talking to me
