In Search of a Better Explanation.
A More Enlightened Understanding
"Discovering a new explanation is fundamentally a creative act." - David Deutsch
Come along! Let's embark on a journey.
A collective journey we shall embark on together.
It's a quest in search of a treasure.
Delivered piece by piece every week.
These pieces interlock, narrating a coherent story.
This treasure is a tale. A better explanation than our initial one.
It's a kind of explanation that sheds light on the origins of our modern-day ailments.
Leading to hypotheses you can personally explore.
Our treasure map is a method grounded in skepticism and challenging the status quo. A method inspired by the Age of Enlightenment.
Nullius in verba (take nobody's word for it) is the motto of the Royal Society founding in 1782
It involves conjuring a more superior explanation than the former, then testing its validity.
To find a good explanation one needs to check some boxes:
Good explanations establish a mechanism explanning the observation
Good explanations are testable
Good explanations are hard to vary
Good explanations have reach
I feel the explanations we often hear fall short of being good explanations. Try asking questions like:
- "Why do I have hypertension, diabetes, or a fatty liver?"
- "It's hereditary, it's due to changes in the microbiome, it's a lack of exercise, you eat too much, you lack discipline, it's a deficiency in certain nutrients, it's the endocrine disruptors, it's the glycemic index, it's your weight, it's age-related, it's stress, it's just bad luck"...
We deserve better! We deserve better explanations.
We deserve better! is crafted with love.
💡 A bette explanation is a conceived and verified narrative that aids in comprehending our circumstances, subsequently guiding our actions for the better.
This idea is inspired by the book "The Beginning of Infinity", a magnum opus penned by an extraordinary man. Thank you, David Deutsch.
To accompany this thought, a touch of poetic beauty: The Cello Suites.