Hi All,
Don't know what the point is in this critical thinking forum, but the facts are most inventions was created thinking out of the box (OOTB) of critical thinkers (CT)!
Tom
@TR
I was wondering when someone would mention OOTB when discussing CT. I disagree. Most inventions are just a slant of a previous invention. Widget A has BC features, but now with feature D added, it becomes revolutionary. Normal progression of action/reaction fosters extended ideas/conclusions but they are not OOTB.
OOTB would be applicable if, let's say, someone proved that driving backwards was 300% safer then driving forward. Who the hell would have thought that possible. Only a crazy guy with his brain screwed backwards, but what if what he discovered was in fact true (not saying it is - just using an example so don't anyone try it on a highway nearest you - hehehe).
OOTB requires one to absolve themselves of their present state of thinking and almost integrate a new persona as if you are an alien visitor to your own planet. You can't just turn CT or OOTB on and off with the flick of a switch. It becomes a way of life. It permeates your present and it dissociates yourself from the norm. It is not always pleasant and it can create major problems for professionals that have to follow a well defined mode of conduct and public acceptance. It can also alienate yourself from your peers (hic-hic) and it can create major and constant questioning of your state of mind. "Why is it only me that sees this? Why is it so difficult for others to realize the differences. WTF can I do to get this into their brains so others can (in your view) advance towards a new horizon? HowTH will I be able to show this blue color if everything around us is tainted red? The obstacles can be extremely daunting but given all the resistance involved in formulating CT or OOTB ideas, the rewards can also go through the roof.
Wow, that felt good. Sort of an auto analysis. hahahaha
@all
(Continuation of this post after @Erfinder post was edited and re-posted.)
But let me give you some of my own CT.
From my present frame of mind, I realize that Tesla's invention of AC is basically all he could do at the time. I have now realized that all coils, Tesla or otherwise, AC or DC driven all suffer from what I call Half Coil Syndrome (HCS) if I consider my present view of how electricity is actually produced, conducted and put to work. In Teslas' day, they were totally immersed in the perspective of the "magnetic field" that was invented to perpetuate a belief system that is over 2000 years old and based on the first iron objects that stuck to a lodestone as being "magic", hence the derivations "magnetic and magnetism. So over the centuries, magnetism became an accepted reality equal to dandruff and death. It is not surprising that when we finally get to the "modern age", this magnetism was as pervasive in higher learning as it was on the outset.
But where do I consider this all went wrong. Well of course it began way back then, but I feel the onus was on individuals like Faraday and others of his day who started to formalize a scientific method of observation. They only problem was, back then like today, if you are a true scientist, you should apply CT in all aspects of theory derivation which no one really did at the time.
No one questioned the reality of magnetism. If a perfectly objective scientist was at task, he would have seen a compass needle point towards a magnet and he would have also seen a piece of metal stick to a magnet and he would have responsibly derived TWO POSSIBLE REASONS for the effects.
1) Magnets produce this invisible magnetic field that attracts the needle and sticks the metal to the source.
2) Magnets are doing exactly what the Earth does every day and that is produce gravity to which metal has a major affinity, all without any fields.
History has made it so that we only follow the first presumption, whether it is right or wrong, we have taken this road till today but that road did not provide an easy ride.
That's because as soon as the first derivation was given and accepted by "supposedly" the Worlds" greatest minds and integrated formally as an academic reality, that magnets produce magnetic fields that attract metal objects and produce field lines onto which your compass needle rides to point to the magnet itself, someone discovered that when the magnet passed near a copper wire wrapped around a metallic core, the coil produced all the same attributes as the magnet, where the compass needle was attracted and the metal objects stuck to the coil. Automatically, since the magnetic designation was already provided by the greatest minds of the day, it would be blasphemy to consider arguing with these brainiacs who not only controlled scientific endeavor but more importantly the purse strings and the club pass to enter their midst, so people quickly learned to shut up, not rock the boat, follow the party line, always agree when your superior is talking to you and all the other trappings of being stuck in a scientific hierarchy controlled by the "nobles" (another word for Cabal), who by then realized that any advancement of any type must advantage them and their "banking" interests only. Science was theirs to profit, regardless of how it portrayed reality, as long as the end result was profits.
So back to the magnet passing a wire actually energized a coil to act like a magnet and now they had to develop new terms, new reasons for such an effect. How can a magnet produce an energized coil? Well we already agreed that the magnet produced a magnetic field, and, since the magnet never touched the copper wire and coil but the effect was still seen, it had to be the magnetic field. Y'a but HOW?
? Well, uhhhhhh, hmmmmmm, geeeeeee, rrrrrrrrrrr, well let's see. The field is composed of these magic electrons, see, that when they pass over the wire, the wire gets charged and electrons start flowing in the coil to produce the magnetic field. Wow that sounds convincing enough, let's go with that. Someone then just coined the words electron, then electricity, a magnetic field and from there, someone else put it into some mathematical matrix (Maxwell) and from there, this one sided view of effects has been perpetuated till today. Nothing happens on its own man. It is a succession of the strictest academic control based on a prehistoric presumption and from there, our greatest minds have seen fit to mold the empirical data to fit the effect and provide enough forms of segmentation that permit talking about the effects with math hence a science is born. Years pass and the electron is not only in the field but covers every atom in existence and is responsible for every chemical reaction known to man. TECHNICALLY, YOU NEVER TOUCHED ANYTHING BUT ELECTRONS, YOU EAT ELECTRONS, YOU EVEN SHIT ELECTRONS, WE HAVE ELECTRONS COMING OUT OF OUR GOUZZIES. WE ARE ELECTRONS AND YOU WILL OBEY!!!
So here we are boys and girls. 2000 or more years later and we are still stuck with ancient premises. But let's go back for a while.
The first reality, a lodestone, is what? A stone, a rock, a damn rock like all the other rocks on this planet when added together produce gravity which we all accept as one reality, but then we do this switchover and give all the same attributes to a magnet, a coil, like our own planet has. But no, our planet can have gravity but this little stone has to be magnetism, because our most greatest minds DECIDED, THAT'S THE WAY IT IS. And the greatest crap of all is we now espouse two forms of presence, gravity and magnetism. Even though they are all the same damn thing, by the powers vested in the Nobels, we have been bambouzled into believing there are two distinct phenomena and by doing so, we have chewed up all the crap make-up designed to fixate this perspective and by doing so have neglected to discover the real functions of the atom (of which I have already defined 6). I blame this entirely on the Faraday era, who must have realized option #2 was an evident reality, but for them, option #2 was already taken by Newton who already had reaped mountains of fame, so it was time for someone else to grab the limelight and reap new rewards, even if they had to make up fairy tale stories to get it.
Shit, I went really long and will stop here. This OOTB or CT really get's you going.
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