Gothenburg · Wednesday, July 22
Jan Bosch

Jan Bosch

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reflection

I don’t know …

Humanity has spent its entire history explaining the world around us. From Thor being angry to explain thunderstorms to evil spirits causing illnesses in the body, we have come up with a wide range of explanations. Of course, science is all about developing explanations, but we try to do what we can to ensure that we have as objective evidence as feasible to show that the explanation is correct. And despite that, we constantly find that there are better explanations out there and that the old ones were flawed. When it comes to life in general, I notice that we all continuously look for explanations. The stock market, the weather, political movements, etc. Watch 10 minutes of news on television and you’ll have 12 different explanations of why something is as it is. But most of the time the explanation is complete bullocks. Although we should always strive for accurate, grounded and validated explanations, it is much better to accept that we don’t know than to cling to beliefs that clearly are superstitions without any evidence to back it up. My question: what do you believe despite not having any evidence for it? And what are you going to do about it?

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