easy task:
fear the unknown.
not so easy task:
"replace fear of the unknown with curiosity."
exemplo prático: o que é que me irá acontecer? estou tão curiosa! olha, ah! vou partir uma perna, olha! e vou ter um acidente de carro! ah!
(é verdade que geralmente temos curiosidade por notícias mázinhas, queremos saber, os pormenores, os detalhes, as dores, as consequências. mas deve ser só quando se aplica aos outros. é-me difícil ter curiosidade pelo desconhecido na minha vida, quando esse desconhecido não tem que ser necessariamente bom.)
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Hum...
tudo - tudo! - influencia o futuro.
Incluindo conhecimento anterior acerca desse mesmo futuro.
Estou a falar da ideia também retratada no filme "Twelve Monkeys" (1995)...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys
"[...] Truth. - In old days truth was absolute, eternal and superhuman. Myself when young accepted this view and devoted a misspent youth to the search for truth. But a whole host of enemies have arisen to slay truth: pragmatism, behaviorism, psychologism, relativity-physics. Galileo and the Inquisition disagreed as to whether the earth went round the sun or the sun went round the earth. Both agreed in thinking that there was a great difference between these two opinions. The point on which they agreed was the one on which they were both mistaken: the difference is only one of words. In old days it was possible to worship truth; indeed the sincerity of the worship was demonstrated by the practice of human sacrifice. But it is difficult to worship a merely human and relative truth. The law of gravitation, according to Eddington, is only a convenient convention of measurement. It is not truer than other views, any more than the metric system is truer than feet and yards.
Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night;
God said, `Let Newton be,; and measurement was facilitated.
This sentiment seems lacking in sublimity. When Spinoza believed anything, he considered that he was enjoying the intellectual love of God. The modern man believes with Marx that he is swayed by economic motives, or with Freud that some sexual motive underlies his belief in the exponential theorem or in the distribution of fauna in the Red Sea. In neither case can he enjoy Spinoza's exaltation. [...]"
Bertrand Russell (c. 1930)
Texto completo em http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Russell/on_youthful_cynicism.html
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