We
have restrictions on giving advice
Everybody is free to discuss medical
and financial
issues, but our government requires us to qualify to give advice
about those issues. The restrictions on giving medical and financial
advice is a restriction on our freedom of speech, but most people
realize that we benefit from those restrictions, and by holding people
accountable for their medical and financial advice.
When we discuss an issue, we
are educating ourselves and
other people, but when we give advice or lectures, we are putting
ourselves in a leadership position and trying to change other people's
thoughts and future. Therefore, the people who try to change our
thoughts about medical and financial issues have to meet higher
standards than people who are merely discussing the issue.
However, we do not apply that concept to culture. Everybody is free to
give advice and lectures on almost every cultural issue. Nobody has to
qualify to promote or alter our culture. We do not have to provide
evidence that our cultural information is beneficial or sensible, and
we are not held accountable for our cultural information. Nobody's
reputation is hurt even if they create stupid, worthless, or
destructive culture. Some
examples mentioned in other documents are:
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We are free to
pressure other people into changing their language, such as telling
them to refer
to "mothers" as "gestational
parent", "egg producer", or "carriers". These
"scientists" want to replace "alcoholic" with "person with an alcohol
use disorder".
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Businesses are
allowed to use deceptive and false information and photographs to
manipulate us into desiring their material items, leisure activities,
travel trips, and
candy bars.
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Religions are
allowed to manipulate our holiday
celebrations, and they can send missionaries
throughout our neighborhoods to promote their beliefs.
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Everybody,
including children, is free to
create sports and
competitions, including those that are dangerous.
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Furthermore, we are allowed to push our cultural changes on other
people in abusive and deceptive manners, such as protests in public
streets, and by intimidating people with senseless accusations, such as
sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and white privilege.
Giving people the right to change culture in any manner they please,
and with any technique they can think of, is as idiotic as giving
people the right to promote whatever medical advice they please, and
allowing them to push their medical advice on other people with
protests in the streets, and by accusing their critics of white
supremacy or bigotry.
Example:
The hippies of the 1960s
During the second half of
the 1960s, there was a noticeable change in American culture. Many
people refer to that era as the " sexual
revolution", or the " hippie
movement". The older adults were resistant to the cultural changes
simply because adults have a resistance to changing their behavior, but
the younger adults, and especially the children, were influenced by
those changes.
Some of the
hippie clothing styles from the 1960s.
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During that era, the media and other businesses were promoting the
tie-dying clothing as a family activity, long hair on boys, Ouija
boards, clairvoyance, astrology, and doing whatever feels good.
A
smaller number of people were promoting casual sex, marijuana, LSD ( which
was legal until 1968), communes, vegetarianism, and traveling
around in a van rather than getting a job.
Sometime around 1968 or 1969, I cannot remember, there were groups of
adults traveling
around the schools, at least in Santa Barbara, to promote feminism, and
to encourage us to "do what
feels good" rather than be concerned about what other people think,
which is the Marquis de Sade philosophy.
The people in the entertainment business were probably the most
significant influences on the attitudes, clothing styles, and
hairstyles of the children and young adults.
They also modified the concept of a "music concert". Instead of people
sitting quietly for an hour or two to listen to music, they arranged
for gigantic concerts that went on for many hours or days, and which had music at audio
levels that could cause hearing loss, and which encouraged alcohol and
drugs. Examples are the Summer of Love
and Woodstock.
Historians are not
providing us with a sensible analysis of the cultural changes that
occurred during the 1960s and 1970s. For example, the Encyclopaedia
Britannica says
that the hippie movement was:
a countercultural movement that
rejected the mores of mainstream American life.
That encyclopedia, and the Wikipedia, claim that Allen Ginsberg and his
friends, such as Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, were the primary
influence for these cultural changes.
Who
decided to
give Ginsberg publicity?
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However, the historians do not
explain how
Ginsberg
and his friends had so much influence.
Most of the American adults at
that time would have criticized Ginsberg and his friends as unskilled
freaks, weirdos, or losers.
For example, Ginsberg
was a
homosexual author and poet, Kerouac
was an alcoholic author and poet, and Burroughs
was a homosexual author with alcohol and drug problems.
A man that Ginsberg was " deeply in love
with", Lucien Carr, who might not have been homosexual, was
arrested for killing one of their homosexual friends, David Kammerer,
who Carr claimed became violent when Carr rebuffed his sexual advances.
How could a group of alcoholic poets and homosexuals have so much
influence over American culture when most American adults at that time
would have despised them?
Time's
Person of the Year are available
as art.
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It was for the same reason that Lady Gaga, George Floyd, Mark Zuckerberg,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, David Duke, Greta Thunberg, Taylor
Swift, David Hogg, and
other people are, or were, getting publicity, and for the same reason
that some of us are ignored, arrested, murdered, blackmailed, or
insulted.
Specifically, our media has been taken over by a network of Israelis,
Jews, homosexuals, pedophiles, and other criminals, and they are
promoting their crime members and blackmailed puppets, and suppressing
their critics and competitors.
The Jews had acquired a lot of influence over the American media,
entertainment businesses, universities, art museums, and Christian
churches at the time Kennedy was elected, but killing Kennedy gave them
tremendous control
of the American
government, which allowed them to get away with even more abuse, such
as the attack on the USS Liberty, and increasing
the the number of soldiers in the Vietnam War by a tremendous
amount.
I think that most the cultural changes that occurred after the
assassination of President Kennedy were detrimental because it resulted in
a lot of people, especially children, developing idiotic attitudes
towards sex, happiness, jobs, drugs, feminism, and marriage. It caused
a lot of
us to get
involved with stupid or destructive activities.
The statistics on divorce show a tremendous
increase after the assassination of Kennedy. The increase might be due
to the
state governments that began to create no-fault
divorce laws at that time, or because the Vietnam War was disrupting
relationships,
but it could also be because of the detrimental effect the Jews,
homosexuals, alcoholics, feminists, and drug users were having on
American culture.
Chemists would not allow Ginsberg to modify the information in their
reference books, and jet engine technicians would not allow Ginsberg to
modify the information in their maintenance manuals, but nobody cares
when Ginsberg or other people modify their culture.
Citizens
are prohibited from
modifying culture
This constitution changes
the situation dramatically by prohibiting citizens and organizations
from modifying our culture. The government has total control of culture, so a
citizen who wants to
make a change to our culture has to post a
document in the Suggestions
category to explain how his modification will be beneficial to us. That
will allow everybody to pass judgment on it.
Nobody is permitted to change other societies
All existing cultures allow
their
members to
change the culture of other
societies, and they also provide that freedom to the people of other
societies. For example, the U.S. Constitution gives Americans the
freedom to:
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missionaries into foreign nations to pressure them into changing their
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Rather than tell the Americans to leave them alone, the foreign nations
allow
the Americans to do this. No nation has any
concern about who
is
modifying
their culture, or why,
or
whether the modifications have any benefit
to the people.
This constitution reverses that situation by prohibiting everybody from trying to change the
culture of other
societies. This constitution demands that people learn from
other societies, rather than try to change them or insult them.
Journalists and historians are zoologists
The people who want to
become doctors must get a lot of training, and they must prove that
they are capable of providing us with sensible medical services, but no
society cares that journalists or historians are lying to us, giving us
distorted views of news events and historical events, or providing us
with idiotic analyses.
This constitution changes that situation by regarding journalists and
historians as zoologists who
specialize in studying humans. They must
meet high standards because they have a tremendous influence over our
thoughts, behavior, and culture. Journalism and history are regarded as
a science.
The Journalism Ministry is responsible for ensuring that journalists
and
historians are providing beneficial reports. Of course, this brings up
the
unsolvable dilemma mentioned many times in this constitution.
Specifically, different people have a different idea on what is a
"beneficial" report. Some people would say that journalists are
doing an excellent job when they provide reports that describe George
Floyd as a victim of white supremacists and police brutality.
This Constitution resolves that dilemma by requiring the
Journalism Ministry to consider what is best
for the City Elders. This is not necessarily what the Elders want, however. Since the Elders are
human, they will have a preference for praise and entertainment, and a
desire to
avoid unpleasant issues, but the journalists must ignore what the
Elders want
and dislike and consider what type of news and analyses will provide
them with a view of the world that will be most beneficial to them, and
provide them with the most satisfying life. The journalists and
historians must educate
the Elders, not entertain or deceive them.
A journalist is more important to us than a medical doctor because we
need to see a doctor once in a while during our life, but journalists
are regularly providing us with information that has a significant
effect over our attitudes, behavior, and goals.
A journalist who produces inaccurate or deceptive information is more
destructive
to society than an incompetent or criminal doctor who hurts the
health of his patients. The reason is because a journalist can hurt everybody in society; the people
in other societies; and the future generations. By comparison, a doctor
can hurt only the few people who become his patients.
The Journalism Ministry is required to routinely give job performance
reviews to the journalists, and routinely replace the journalist who
provides the most worthless reports. The Courts Ministry is required to
evict or euthanize the
journalists that are determined to deliberately
provide deceptive
information.
A person must explain and justify
cultural changes
This constitution regards
culture as valuable
information
that nobody has a right to alter. We should experiment with
improvements to culture, just as we should
improve our knowledge of chemistry and physics, but we cannot let
citizens or organizations modify culture for their selfish benefits.
The main reason that people today
behave and live differently than our
ancestors is because we have different culture. For example:
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If we could replace
the information in our mind with the
information from a person in ancient Greece, we would speak
the ancient Greek language, believe the ancient Greek religion, and
behave in a
similar manner as that ancient Greek person. We would not behave in an identical
manner to that person because we have different genetic intellectual
and emotional
characteristics, but we would fit into the ancient Greek society
without any problem.
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If we could extract
the information that will be in the minds of a person a million years
in
the future, and put it into
our minds, we would have a superior
understanding of everything,
and that would be more beneficial than having a lot of material wealth,
fame, and sex.
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A
person who alters our culture is
essentially opening our skull, inserting electrodes into our brain, and
altering our memory.
That allows him to change our attitudes towards our clothing
styles, our goals, our recreational activities, the we treat our
friends and spouse, the way we raise our children, and our beliefs
about religion and dinosaurs.
The document about intellectual
trials points out that it is foolish
to allow people and organizations to alter our culture to fit their
selfish, ignorant, stupid,
dishonest, or neurotic desires.
We must regard culture as valuable
knowledge, and it needs to be developed in the same serious
manner that scientists develop knowledge about bacteria and
plastics.
During the Middle Ages, the people created scientific knowledge
according to what "made sense" to them, and their emotions had a
significant influence over their thoughts. For example, they did not
want to die, so they created cures for diseases, and some of them
figured out where they could find a fountain of youth. They also wanted
to become wealthy, so they figured out how to turn iron into gold.
After repeatedly failing to achieve their goals, they began to realize
that they cannot trust their thoughts, and that they must
conduct experiments, verify their conclusions, and have other people
verify the experiments and conclusions.
However, social scientists have not realized that these concepts apply
to
culture, also. We are still allowing everybody to "figure out" the best
policy for abortion, the best way to celebrate Christmas, the proper
way
to raise children, the best recreational activities, the best policy
for alcohol and marijuana, the best way to reduce crime, who to elect
as president of the nation, who is a sexist or an anti-Semite, the
proper clothing styles, and the correct religion.
We regard the medieval alchemists as being ignorant for
believing that they knew how to turn iron into gold, but a person
in 2024 who believes that he knows the best way to raise
children or the best policy for crime is
just as ignorant.
We must raise standards for people in leadership
positions to those who can give sensible
answers to such questions as:
What
is the difference between:
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The medieval alchemists tried many times to turn iron into gold, and
their failures showed them that their brilliant theories were false.
However, it is impossible
for
us to experiment with our cultural ideas, and that prevents us from
discovering that our opinions are stupid.
For example, parents cannot make copies of their children and
experiment with different ways of raising them. They have only one set
of children, and they can raise them only one time. Therefore, they
have no idea how their children would have turned out if they had been
raised differently.
The lack
of
evidence that we are ignorant allows us to believe that we
are educated, which is the option we perfer because we are arrogant
creatures.
Every culture evolved to give us what we want, and that is why we
promote the attitude that
everybody can figure out everything about life, and that whoever
disagrees with us is ignorant or stupid.
We believe that everybody is capable of making excellent decisions
about voting, clothing, spending money, raising children, food,
alcohol, weddings, and every other cultural issue.
No culture promotes the attitude that developing or improving holiday
celebrations, recreational activities, government systems, abortion
policies, school curriculum, or other culture is just as difficult as
developing knowledge about chemistry and electrical engineering.
For example, every culture believes that
selecting government officials is so simple that every adult can do it
during a few minutes of
their leisure time, and without any education or training, but
selecting government officials requires analyzing human minds,
and that is as difficult as analyzing grasshoppers,
aluminum alloys, and catalysts.
Everybody is capable
of
analyzing humans, but
being capable of doing something does not guarantee
that the result will be useful.
For
example, all of us, including idiots and young children, are capable
of analyzing a grasshopper, but most adults
will produce an ordinary
analysis rather than an intelligent
analysis, and a child
will produce a stupid analysis.
Likewise, everybody is capable
of analyzing such issues as crime,
abortion, religion, city planning, and feminism, and they can create
government policies for all of those issues, but most people create
analyses
and policies
that are simplistic, worthless, or stupid.
This Constitution requires people to make a radical change to their
view of culture. Specifically, selecting a president, developing a
policy for abortion, creating a recreational activity, and all other
cultural issues, are just as difficult as analyzing and developing
knowledge about
earthquakes, cancer, and perovskite solar cells.
Actually, analyzing culture is more difficult than developing knowledge
about chemistry because our emotions are stimulated when we study
humans. Therefore, in addition to needing enough intelligence to
produce useful analyses of cultural issues, we also need an awareness
of our emotions, and enough control over them, to prevent them from
distorting our analyses.
Furthermore, developing culture is difficult because we cannot test our
ideas in a laboratory. We must experiment
with our lives.
We don't allow
children, idiots, businesses, churches, Zionist organizations, or
lunatics to alter our
information about math or chemistry, and we should be just as resistant
to allowing people to change our cultural information.
Example #1: Torches of Freedom
In
1929, Edward Bernays
arranged for women to have a protest in which they smoked
cigarettes, which he referred to as " Torches of
Freedom."
His protest was intended to change American culture to make women
believe that they were oppressed by sexist men, and that they must be
able to smoke cigarettes in order to enjoy life.
He essentially removed the
skulls of many men and women, and altered their attitudes towards
freedom, sexism, men, women, and smoking.
None of the people who got involved with altering attitudes
towards sexism and cigarettes had to provide evidence that those
cultural changes would improve the lives of women. None of them were
held accountable for the effects they
had on women's
health, their children, or their marriages. None of them had to show
evidence that increasing the production of cigarettes would be a
beneficial use of our farmland, factories, and labor.
This constitution changes the situation by requiring people who want to
alter our culture to explain what they want to change in a document and
post it in the Suggestions
category for everybody to analyze and verify. Nobody has the right to
change our culture simply because they want to.
Example #2: The Mandela Effect
The Mandela Effect refers
to people who have no contact with one
another making the same mistake
in their memory of something. For example, I am one of many people who
mistakenly remember the
"monopoly man" as having a monocle.
Fiona Broome created the
concept of the Mandela Effect. She has no explanation for it, but she wrote:
Parallel realities is a fun idea for
speculation.
The journalist who wrote this
news article prefers the phrase "parallel universes".
The FDA would not allow a
business to produce a medicine that they described as: "We don't know what this medicine does,
but curing cancer is a fun idea for speculation."
However, every society
allows everybody to create and distribute information
about human behavior and culture without any concern for whether it is
accurate or beneficial, or whether it has any supporting evidence.
This freedom allows businesses, religions, nonprofit groups, government
officials, philosophers, psychologists, paranormal consultants,
astrologists, palm readers, and
everybody else to create any theories they please about human behavior,
culture, and history. We are not
required to provide supporting
evidence for anything we say, and we do not have to take responsibility for
information that turns out to be idiotic, wasteful, or
dangerous.
The people involved with social science have not yet developed a useful
peer review process, and none of us will ruin our reputation for
creating idiotic or dangerous cultural information. We are even free to
create deceptive
information in order to manipulate people, such as fabricating
information about the Holocaust, and accusing people of having "white
privilege".
As pointed out in other documents, we are very finicky about our foods
and medicines, but the Mandela Effect is just one example of how we have no
concern for whether the information about human behavior and culture
has any
supporting evidence or benefit.
It is even more important to realize that Fiona Broome is just one example of a person who has
created information about human behavior that has no supporting
evidence. All
of us do it occasionally because we all have a brain
that fills in missing details. For example:
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None of us knows how
to raise children, so we create answers to any questions we
have about it, and then we believe that we are educated about the
issue. Many
people are so convinced that they know how to raise children that they
give advice to other parents.
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When we are
listening to a person that we cannot see, or reading a document from a
person that we do not know, we often create the details of what he looks like.
Our mind does not care that it
is impossible
for
us to figure out what a person looks like based on what he says or the
sound of his voice.
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We fill in the
missing details on why people are committing crimes, and
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All of us routinely fill in missing details because it is a natural
activity of the human mind. We cannot
be divided into two groups of people; specifically, those who create
information and those who do not. Rather, we merely differ in how much information we create, how
much effort we put into verifying
the information, and how accurate
our information is.
We must be
aware of our tendency to fill in the details, and then assume that we
are educated.
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We are essentially filling in one of life's coloring books, and then
naively assuming that we are educated
about the issue.
If we are ignorant about this
characteristic, we will not realize
that we created
a lot of the
information in our minds.
We will not realize that we educated
ourselves by guessing
at the
missing details. Instead, we will assume that we have a lot of
information
about life because we truly are knowledgeable experts.
In order to improve our lives and the world, we must make some dramatic
changes to our attitudes. Modern humans must acknowledge that the human
brain
is a modified ape
brain, and that we cannot assume that our brilliant ideas are accurate.
We must remind ourselves that we are
analogous to blind men feeling an elephant. We must refrain from
believing that we are experts about life. Instead of giving people
lectures, we need to get together with other people and become explorers of life.
We need to study ourselves, experiment with our culture, be critical of
our brilliant opinions, and learn from other people.
None of us can even understand ourselves,
or figure out what would provide us with the best life and health. None
of us are experts on abortion, recreational
activities, raising children, or city design. We need to experiment
with our lives and culture, and look critically at our experiments.
The Mandela Effect is just one example of why we need to raise
standards for the information that we provide to one another. We should
not tolerate nonsensical information, such as
"parallel realities". The Mandela effect is due to a characteristic of
our mind, and we should try to understand our mind's characteristics.
However, understanding our mind requires that we acknowledge that it is
an ape brain, not the magical
creation of a supreme being, or a piece of clay that molds itself to
the environment. This requires that we understand and
acknowledge that we evolved from animals, and that our brain is a
biological computer that has been designed by our DNA.
Unlike our electronic
computers, our mind does not
memorize all of the data that
comes from our eyes, ears, and other senses. We don't know much about
how our
memory works, but it seems to be doing the equivalent of what JPG does
to images; specifically, discard a lot of the information in order to
reduce the memory requirements. This results in
memories that are missing a lot of detail.
When we recall a memory, and we want those missing details, our mind
creates them as it assumes they should be. For example, I have never
seen the cartoon
"The Berenstain Bears", but
there are supposedly some people who mistakenly remember their name as
"Berenst ein".
That mistake might be because their minds did not bother to
memorize the
exact
spelling. Instead, their mind might have noticed that it is "similar
enough" to
such names as Goldstein, Einstein, and Finkelstein to associate it with
those names.
Or mind is concerned only with our survival and reproduction, not
accuracy in regards to memorizing information. Therefore, our mind
might have a tendency to make a judgment on when something is similar
enough to something else to be considered a variation of it.
If there were lots of people whose names ended in "stain" in addition
to "stein", then our mind might have kept
two, separate categories of names. However, when there is only one name
with "stain", and lots of names with "stein", our mind might assume
that the "stain" name is close enough to be associated with "stein".
I and some other people remember the Fruit of the Loom logo had a
drawing of a
cornucopia, but those memories are apparently false. I was so certain
that the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia that
I spent some time searching for it on the Internet, but I could not
find it. That made me wonder if
some artist had combined a cornucopia with a Fruit of the Loom logo for
a magazine article, and I had seen that article.
How is it possible that I and other people remember that
cornucopia in the logo if it was never there? This
news article has a video of television advertisement for Fruit of the
Loom underwear, and it shows people dressed up as fruit, so perhaps I
had seen those type of advertisements, and my mind associated the
images of those fruits with the images of a cornucopia of fruit.
Whatever the reason that I made that mistake, it was not
due to parallel realities. Instead, it has something to do with the way
our mind associates memories that are similar, discards information
that it considers
irrelevant, forgets information over time, and creates information when
it is missing details.
I associate
"rich man" with
images similar to this drawing.
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Likewise, the reason I assumed the monopoly man had a monocle is due to
how my mind remembers and associates images.
The phrase "rich man" causes me to recall drawings of men
who are overweight, have a monocle, tall hat, vest, and
decorative pocket watch in the vest, similar to the man in the drawing
to the right.
I don't know where I got those images, but I suppose I saw them in
political cartoons, comic books, or
television cartoons.
I probably saw only a few of those drawings, but I
was fascinated by the monocles, vests, and pocket watches, so I
remembered those three aspects of "rich man".
The rabbit in the story of Alice in Wonderland also had a pocket watch
in his vest, and that was one of the few images my mind remembered
about
that story. The grinning, striped cat is another image that my mind
remembered, but not because I liked that image. Rather, it was because
his abnormal mouth made him look like a freak, which I found
unpleasant. We dislike
and fear things that look abnormal. That is why we prefer people,
furniture,
foods, and other things to be " attractive".
When I hear the phrase "rich man" or "monopoly man", I
recall those memories of overweight men with monocles, tall
hats,
vests, and pocket watches. Perhaps those memories caused me to fill
in the
details of "monopoly man" by giving him a vest, pocket watch, and
monocle.
Why would so many people make the same mistake of assuming the monopoly
man had a monocle, and that the Fruit of
the Loom logo had a cornucopia?
The reason is because
we have similar brains. Our
brains are not
identical, but they are similar, so we
have similar
thoughts when
we experience similar situations. Likewise, all members of a
group of wolves have similar behavior because they have
similar minds.
For some more examples of this concept, we have similar reactions to
sugar, loud noises, and sharp objects that poke our skin.
We are more likely to remember details about something that we
enjoy or are frightened by. For example, I was fascinated by pocket
watches and monocles when I was a
child, so that would explain why I remember them. However, I have never
had an emotional attraction
to company logos, so perhaps my mind did not bother to remember much of
anything about the Fruit of the Loom logo, which resulted in me having
to fill in almost all of the details, which increases the chances that
I create a logo that is significantly different from the actual logo.
We don't understand the human mind very well, but everything that our
mind does has a sensible explanation. There is nothing magical about how our brain
functions. It functions just like
the
brain of an ape, dog, and tiger. All animals, including humans, could
be described as different models of biological
robots.
Our mind makes decisions by processing
information, so when two different people are exposed to similar
information, they will process the information into similar thoughts.
The more similar their information is, and the more similar their
genetic characteristics are, the more similar their thoughts will be.
However, the people who resist, or cannot understand, the concept that
humans are apes, and that our
DNA determines how our mind thinks, will have
trouble understanding why different people can have the similar
thoughts. They will come up with some idiotic explanation for why this
happens, such as the people are in parallel realities.
We cannot memorize all of the information that we are exposed
to, so our mind must discard most of the information and remember only
the details we assume are significant. Since we have
genetically similar minds, we have a tendency to discard similar
information and remember similar information.
Since there are subtle differences in the minds of men and women, women
will discard and remember slightly different information compared to
men. For example, women are more likely to notice, be affected by, and
remember details about children and people's relationships, and men are
more
likely to remember more details about nature, mechanical items, and
other
men's status.
There are also subtle differences between individual men and women. For
example, when I was a child I noticed that some of the boys could
remember a lot
of details about cars that they saw, such as the make and model, style
of wheels, and sometimes the year that the car was manufactured. People
such as myself, who don't have much of an interest in automobiles, are
likely to remember only the color and approximate shape of the
automobiles that we see.
Our tendency to fill in missing details causes trouble for police
investigations because our mind doesn't identify which information is a
true memory of the event, and which information was created by our
mind. People need to be aware of this characteristic so that they are
more critical of what their memories.
Aristotle is assumed to have created the expression,
"nature abhors a vacuum", and that expression applies to our
mind. Our mind abhors ignorance. We want to know everything, so our
mind creates the missing information according to
what
we assume it should be. That characteristic was beneficial to
prehistoric humans who had to spend most of their time guessing where
they could find food, water, and shelter, but it causes trouble for
people today who are trying to be scientists, or who are trying to
understand human behavior, crimes, or culture.
To make the situation worse, our emotions can influence our creation of
information to give us what we want
to believe. For example, we have no
idea how or when the universe was
created, and our emotions will cause us to prefer the details that are
the most pleasant. Since the social animals have a strong craving to
follow a strong, older, adult male, our emotions prefer filling in the
details by assuming that there is such a man in control of the universe.
Christianity spread quickly in Europe among our pagan ancestors, and I
suspect the reason is because our emotions want to follow one man, not
a group of men. Therefore, when the pagans were told of the concept of
a old, wise, strong man watching over us and protecting us, they
preferred that fantasy to a group of gods.
A few people have asked me how I can live without religion, the Big
Bang, or some other belief about the universe. They cannot understand
how I can respond with "I don't know" when asked how the universe was
created, but I don't understand why they cannot
respond with "I don't know".
I want to know how the universe was created, but I'm not going to
create an answer simply to satisfy that desire. I can leave that desire
unfulfilled. Why do most people need an explanation? Why do I not need
one? And why do they not care that
their explanation is lacking supporting evidence? I don't know the
answer to those
questions, either.
We must
resist the temptation to believe that we are educated when we fabricate
information.
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It is important for modern humans to be aware of our desire to fill in
the details so that we don't fool ourselves into believing that we are
educated.
When we fill in the details and then believe that we are educated, we
are essentially giving ourselves a PhD for creating what is almost
always a worthless
thesis.
For example, nobody knows
anything about ghosts, but Fiona Broome believes
that she is an expert on ghosts:
If you want to know about ghosts,
ghost hunting, or haunted places, I probably have answers.
They’re
answers you can trust.
Most people would probably insult
her as an idiot for believing
that she is an expert on ghosts, but all of the billions of people who
believe that they know the correct policy for abortion, the correct
religion, the proper way to raise children, the best policy for crime,
and how the universe was created, are behaving in the same manner.
Fiona Broome is not
a different species with different behavior. Rather, she is just an example of what all of us regularly
do. Specifically, fill in the details to issues we know nothing about,
and then arrogantly believe that we are knowledgeable experts.
Software must meet high standards
In a previous document I advocated that we
develop robots to answer questions for children. If we suppress their
questions, we encourage them to fill in the answers by themselves,
which is detrimental. We should encourage
children to ask questions and
investigate issues that they don't understand.
Businesses are now providing us with ChatGPT and similar software that
can answer questions, but there is no authority to ensure that the
software is providing honest
answers. This is allowing every company to modify their software to
produce the results they want, and nobody is held accountable for the
effect they have on our lives or the future.
Furthermore, the businesses that provide software for searching the
Internet, such as Google, are also free to secretly make the software
give biased and inaccurate results in order to manipulate us. They
are not held accountable for their effect on us, either.
The Journalism Ministry is responsible for ensuring that all of the
software is providing us with
information that is honest and accurate. The software
developers are held accountable for the effect they have on people's
lives and society, and the people who are determined to deliberately produce deceptive
software must be evicted or euthanized. This constitution does not have
any pity for people who chose to be destructive.
Nobody has the right to change our
culture
The Torches of Freedom and
the Mandela Effect are just two examples of why we must raise standards
for the information that people are providing to us. Any person who
wants to "educate" us, or alter our culture in any manner,
must present their proposal to us so that we can think about it.
Nobody has the right to change our culture. A person who wants to
change our
culture must make a proposal to do so, just as if he were a scientist
who is suggesting changes to our knowledge about antibiotics or
transistors.
Proposals are posted in the Suggestions category
People
who want to change our culture must post a document in the Suggestions
category to explain
how we will benefit from the changes. This allows everybody to analyze
their proposal and decide if we want to experiment with it.
Furthermore, nobody is allowed to make proposals anonymously or
secretly. A person must identify himself as the author because the
people who want to change our lives are held accountable for their changes.
Example: The Mandela Effect
This constitution gives everybody an Internet site for their personal
use. It would allow people to post photos and documents, and
communicate with each other, similar to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace,
Instagram, and other message boards and social media sites. Since the
government controls all businesses, there are no competing social media
sites. There is only one social media site that the government
controls. The only competition would be among the software programmers
to make the system easier to use and more useful.
Fiona Broome would be allowed to post her concept of the Mandela Effect
and parallel realities on her personal Internet site, but journalists
would be prohibited from promoting that concept until it had some type
of supporting evidence.
If somebody wanted to claim that it was a valid scientific theory, they
would have to create a document to explain it, and post it in the Suggestions
category. Since the concept of parallel realities is nonsensical, the
person who posted it would be regarded as uneducated, mentally
defective, or stupid. It would hurt his social credit score.
Although the citizens would be allowed to use their personal Internet
sites to discuss the Mandela effect and parallel realities, the
Behavior and Journalism Ministries have the authority to pass judgment
on when citizens are going "too far" in the spreading of idiotic
concepts. For example, if only a few citizens were promoting the
concept that the Mandela effect is due to parallel realities, the
ministers would ignore them.
However, if the ministers believe that there are "too many" citizens
promoting the concept, they have the authority to tell the people to
stop it. Although this gives the government a lot of control over
freedom of speech, it is similar to what occurs in families,
businesses, and other organizations. For example, the executives of a
business do not care if some employees discuss idiotic concepts, but
they will stop the situation if they believe the idiotic information is
disrupting the team.
This Constitution gives people freedom of speech, but not the freedom
to promote stupid or destructive concepts. The information that we
provide to other people can have a significant effect on their lives,
so we should
ensure that we are providing people with sensible information. We
should not allow people to encourage stupid and destructive attitudes
and behavior. It is especially important to protect children from
idiotic information because they pick up information without
questioning it.
Everybody wants the government to ensure that we are provided with safe
and effective medicines,
and we should also want the
government to ensure that we are being provided with honest and
accurate information.
This concept also applies to recreational activities. For example,
every culture today allows people to promote activities that are
worthless, dangerous, and destructive, such as some of the tik-tok challenges.
The Behavior Ministry has the authority to pass judgment on when an
activity is unacceptable.
Everybody is held accountable for the effect
they have on other people's lives.
People who play dangerous pranks or encourage bad behavior are
considered just as detrimental as businesses that provide dangerous
foods and medicines.
The Mandela effect is just one example
Most people are probably unaware of the Mandel Effect, but it is just
one example of how this Constitution will prevent people and
organizations from promoting idiotic and deceptive concepts and
cultural activity. Some other
examples are that this constitution will prohibit people from changing
our language, and from claiming that
some people are sexist, anti-Semitic, or have white privilege.
Everybody who wants to change our culture must behave
like a
scientist who describes his ideas in
a document, and lets everybody analyze it, verify it, and pass judgment
on its
value and accuracy.
Everybody has "freedom of speech", which allows everybody to discuss
issues, but a person is not
"discussing an issue" when he takes the role of an leader by giving
lectures to other people, or when he arranges for people to have a
protest in the streets.
There is no dividing line between when somebody is "discussing an
issue"
and when they are giving us a lecture, or trying to manipulate our
opinions, but we must make that
judgment.
Our attitude towards social issues must become like our attitude
towards physical science. Specifically, that creating culture
is just as difficult as creating physical knowledge.
Chemists
benefit when they discuss
which catalyst is best for a factory, but they do not benefit when one of them has the
arrogant attitude that he knows what is best, and he lectures or tries
to intimidate the other people into following his unverified,
unsupported theory.
Historians must become scientists
All existing schools treat
history as if it a type of entertainment, but this constitution regards
it as a extremely valuable scientific field that is a branch of
zoology. Historians must meet the
same high standards as chemists, mathematicians, and zoologists.
Specifically, they must present their theories to the world, and let
other people verify them. They cannot be
allowed to suppress analyses of their theories by accusing their
critics of being Holocaust deniers, climate change deniers, terrorists,
radicals, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, sexists, or
anti-Semites.
The ministers are required to regard a person as a criminal if he tries
to interfere with the verification or analysis of historical events.
That person is more destructive
to society than a person who tries to prevent somebody from verifying
that our medicines are safe because information has more of an effect
on us than medicines.
The physical scientists have paper publications and Internet sites
where they present their documents for peer review, but social science
has not
reached that level of advancement.
Instead, historians and other social scientists are publishing whatever
documents, news reports, and television documentaries they please about
human behavior and history, and nobody makes any attempt to verify that
their information is accurate or beneficial. They resist critical
reviews of their theories, and don't want to be held accountable for
anything they say.
This constitution changes the situation by requiring the historians and
other social
scientists to verify one another's information, just like the physical
scientists. The Knowledge Division of the World Government maintains an
internet
site for historians
to publish their
theories. All of the historical information for the world will be
posted on that site to make it easy to find.
Historians must analyze their one another's theories about the Vikings,
the ancient Greeks, the world wars, and Holocaust with the same
serious attitude that zoologists analyze their theories about wolves
and gophers.
If any of the "ordinary" citizens want to get involved with cultural
issues, they must post documents in the Suggestions
category. That will be their method of letting the world see their
opinions and verify their information.
Historians must be able to hurt
people's feelings
This constitution requires
history to be a branch of zoology that studies humans. This requires
historians to have the emotional ability to be as honest about humans
as other zoologists are with salamanders. This
makes it much more difficult for a person to be a historian. The reason
is because humans are the only creature that will complain about what
the historians are saying.
Salamanders don't care if zoologists study them and discuss details
about their life, but humans put up resistance to being observed, and
we become sad or angry when people say something about us that we do
not want to hear.
In other documents I pointed out that one reason social science is
worthless is because it requires more than intelligence to be a social
scientist. It requires the ability to look critically at humans, but
our emotions make that extremely difficult. We want to praise
ourselves, not look critically at ourselves. We also resist being
observed. We want secrecy so that we can hide our embarrassing
characteristics. We don't want other people to know the
truth about us. We want to create a false image of ourselves to impress
them.
The only people who will be able to provide useful analyses of history
are those who have the ability to control their emotions well enough to
look critically at themselves, their children, their relatives, and all
other people. They must also have the ability to look favorably at the
people they dislike. They must be able to look at humans in the same
unbiased manner that a scientist observes a grasshopper.
Historians must also be able to look at both men and women in an
equally unbiased manner. For example, male
historians must be able to control their sexual cravings enough to
realize that women are female apes, not goddesses. The male historians
need the ability to produce historical analyses based on the evidence,
rather than to appease or glorify women.
Likewise, the female
historians must be able to regard men as male apes, rather than as
sexist monsters who enjoy tormenting women. The female historians must
be able to investigate history without competing with men, or trying to
prove something to men.
For example, Carly Cassella wrote this
and this
document to prove that female Vikings were just just as famous and
successful as warriors as the men. She has the typical bitter attitude
of feminists that women are oppressed and insulted by sexist men. She
does not
create documents to educate us.
Rather, she is trying to prove something to men.
The men that studied the Liar birds noticed that the males have
incredible singing abilities, but they didn't notice the females do
much singing. Eventually it was discovered that the females do have
amazing singing talents. Carly Cassella wrote this article
to imply that the reason nobody had noticed the talent of the female
Liar birds was because the men who studied them were sexist, not
because the female Liar birds are "shy".
Carly Cassella is an example of a woman who is encouraging anger,
bitterness, accusations, and other bad attitudes. The journalism
ministry is required and authorized to fire those women, and edit their
documents to prevent them from ruining our culture with their bad
attitudes.
The female historians also need to control their attraction
to children so that they can give sensible analyses of children in
history. For example, when archaeologists discover the graves of babies
or children who appear to have been killed, the female and
archaeologists and historians become emotionally upset, and most of the
men have such a strong desire to pander to women that they join the
women in wasting time to discuss the "tragedy" of the deaths.
Whether the killing of a child is more tragic than the killing
of an adult depends upon a person's mental characteristics and
education. It is more sensible to consider the killing of a desirable
adult to be more tragic for the same reason that farmers are
much more
upset when gophers kill a healthy, productive fruit tree rather than a
baby or a sickly tree.
Historians must also be capable of
hurting people's feelings. They cannot modify history to appease
people. They must be able to resist the intimidation by the people who
become upset with their analysis of history.
The historians and journalists should help one
another deal with the emotional trauma of upsetting people. We cannot
expect them to deal with the emotional trauma on their own. The reason
is because humans are social animals, so we want other people to accept
us, not become angry with us. We need to give them emotional support so
that they do not feel as if they are alone in a fight with a lot of
other people.
We resist criticizing people, which makes it difficult for us to give
people our honest opinions of them. Men tend to remain silent rather
than criticize somebody, and women tend to find something nice to say
about a person rather than criticize them. Our desire to be nice to
people is useful for creating a society, but historians and journalists
must give us honest analyses of humans.
In order for history to become a useful science, we must do more than
restrict historians to people who excel at
research and analyses. We must also restrict historians to people who
have demonstrated an excellent ability to control their emotions so
that they can look critically at humans. For example, historians should
be able to
provide an intelligent response to such questions as:
1) What is the difference between:
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Men using
dogs and plastic women to satisfy their cravings for sex.
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Women using
dogs and dolls to satisfy their craving for babies.
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Men who use
dogs to satisfy their cravings for sex.
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Women who use
dogs to satisfy their craving for babies.
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Those type of questions don't have "correct" answers, but we can and
should pass judgment on whether a person's answer is showing evidence
that he has an excellent ability to control his emotions and
provide an intelligent analysis. We have standards for people to meet
to become a doctor or pilot, and we need to set standards for historians.
Example: The crime
documentaries
The Cold Case
Files is just one example of documentaries about murders that look favorably at the victims rather than
seriously, and
which treats the criminals as monsters rather than as humans.
The American culture provides us with tremendous secrecy, and we are
allowed to file lawsuits against people that we believe are hurting our
reputation. This culture results in journalists avoiding criticism of
murder victims and their families. They
tend to regard the victims as "ordinary" people, and sometimes the
victims are treated as if they are unusually friendly, kind, generous,
and polite.
This biased view of the victims creates a distorted view of murder. It
causes people to assume that criminals are murdering people at random, which
leads them to the conclusion that everybody
is a
potential victim, which causes a lot of people to become
fearful.
If historians and journalists could provide us with a more accurate
analysis of crimes, and if we had a database with details of
everybody's life,we would discover that most murders are not random.
Rather, the lower-quality people tend to be murdered more often.
One reason is because they tend to associate with other low-quality
people, such as people with drug problems, mental disorders,
alcoholism, gambling problems, financial problems, and violent
personalities.
Another reason that some people are more likely to be murdered is
because they are suffering from a mental or physical disorder that
causes them to be miserable, and they react by searching for excitement. This
results in them becoming "the life of the party", very friendly, and
"lots of fun to be with," but in reality they are trying to titillate
themselves. This can result in them doing things, getting involved with
people, and taking risks that "normal" people would avoid.
We cannot understand history, improve our culture, or solve
crimes when we distort our analysis of crime in order to appease the
victims and their families. We must analyze crimes
in a serious manner in order to understand why they are occurring.
Journalists and historians must have the ability to hurt the feelings of
the victims and their families.
Secrecy and deception encourage crime
The American culture allows the victims of crime to be secretive about
themselves and the crime, so the journalists who want to provide news
reports or
documentaries about the crimes have to request the victims and their
families to voluntarily provide information. T he
people who are willing to talk about the crimes will always give a
biased view of it, and the journalists rarely try to counteract the
bias because they don't want to upset anybody.
The American culture also allows people to be secretive with the police
investigations, such as refusing to answer questions, and refusing to
provide DNA samples. This secrecy interferes with the understanding of
and solving of crimes. People can also get away with lying to the
police by claiming that they made a mistake rather than lie.
Children need honest
information about crime. When they are taught that
most of the victims are wonderful people who have been chosen at random
by criminals, then they will be in fear of becoming a victim.
However, when children are told the truth about crimes, then they will
realize that they have a significant influence over whether they become
a victim. They will realize that most of the
victims of crime are the misfits
who have low quality minds, and the two primary methods to reduce their
chances of becoming a victim are:
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Avoid getting
involved with other misfits, such as people who have problems with
drugs,
gambling, or mental illness.
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It is also detrimental to teach the children that criminals are
ordinary people who became criminals because of some environmental
issue, such as bad parenting, bullying at school, racism, sexism, or
anti-Semitism. That false theory can cause a child to worry that he
might
become a criminal if he become a victim of racism, bad parenting,
bullying, or sexism.
It is especially detrimental to teach children that the victim of a
pedophile is likely to become a pedophile, or that the victim of theft
is likely to become a thief. Children must be taught that every adult
has control of his life.
Information about crimes
is public knowledge
This constitution requires history and news reports to be a
branch of zoology which studies human life, but journalists and
historians cannot study human
life unless they have access to accurate and detailed information about
people. Therefore, we must eliminate secrecy and collect information
about everybody's life for the People
database.
In the USA, children who commit crimes are allowed to keep their
identity a secret, but that makes it difficult to understand the
behavior of children. Therefore, the Database Ministry is required to include details of the
crimes committed by children.
Nobody has the right to keep information about a crime a secret because
crime affects everybody. Allowing people to be secretive or deceptive
about crimes is as destructive as allowing a technician to be secretive
or deceptive about the problems of a jet engine, or allowing a business
to be secretive or deceptive about the side effects of a medicine.
Everybody is responsible for their behavior, held accountable for their
behavior, and must be truthful about their behavior. Criminals cannot
hide their face or their name, and neither can the victims. The
people who are embarrassed or ashamed of their behavior must suffer
quietly.
We are a team,
not independent individuals. This constitution gives everybody the
right to know if a team member is causing trouble so that we can
understand our problems and find ways to improve our team and our lives.
Journalists, historians, and the police must be capable of analyzing
crimes in the same serious manner that a technician investigates
problems with the gears in a transmission. This requires that they be
able to resist the intimidation by the people who are ashamed of
themselves.
We benefit by being forced to
explain ourselves
Animals resist
thinking and working. We look for the easiest way to accomplish a task.
We prefer
to react quickly to situations
rather than put time
and effort into analyzing them. Therefore, everybody, including the
people who have exceptional incentive, will do better
work when they are under pressure
to think about what
they are doing.
When we are allowed to express an opinion verbally, rather than
pressured to write a document to explain it, we are not likely to
notice that our opinion is vague or confused.
However, when we are forced
to produce a document to explain our brilliant opinion, we are likely
to read what we have written, and that can help us realize that
our document is vague, contradictory, hypocritical, or confusing. That
in turn puts pressure on us
to either put effort into improving
our opinion, or abandon it. ( I
wrote about this here.)
Therefore, a person who wants to make
changes to our culture is required to post a document in the Suggestions
category to explain it, and he must do more than merely propose a
change. He must explain how we will benefit
from the change, and he must show that the benefits will outweigh the disadvantages.
That will pressure
him into acknowledging that everything has
disadvantages, and he will be pressured to find the disadvantages of his
brilliant proposal,
and think about whether the
benefits outweigh the disadvantages. That can
help him improve his idea, or come to the conclusion that is so stupid
that he should abandon it.
If a person cannot find
any disadvantages with his proposal, or if he can only find
insignificant disadvantages, he has not put much effort into
his proposal, or he is too arrogant to look critically at his brilliant
ideas, or he is trying to deceive us by ignoring the serious
disadvantages. A truly talented person will be able to find some
disadvantages to his ideas.
Everything has benefits and disadvantages because benefits and
disadvantages are whatever we want
them to be. A benefit to one person is a disadvantage to
another, and vice versa. A person who cannot see any disadvantages to
his proposal is unable to look at his proposal from any point of view
other than his own.
This concept applies to everything we create, not just culture. For
example, the
advantages and disadvantages with a particular design of refrigerator,
toaster oven, cell phone, computer software, and robot are different to
different people. A truly talented engineer will realize that the
features of a product are arbitrary, and that different people will
want a slightly different design.
A talented engineer will realize that there is no "correct" way
to design a product, and that he must choose features according to the
people that he is designing the product for.
This is another reason why this Constitution advocates selecting people
to be the City Elders. The engineers and government officials are
required to design
apartments, software, cell phones, robots, furniture, recreational
activities, holiday celebrations, clothing styles, and other products
and culture for the Elders, not for themselves, the public, or a
government official.
However, products and culture must be designed according to what will
provide the Elders with the best life,
which is not necessarily what the Elders want. For example, the Elders might
want recreational activities to provide the winners with trophies,
praise, or other prizes, but the ministers might decide that they will
have better relationships, attitudes, and lives when there are no
rewards for their recreational activities.
It is easier to analyze a
document
Another advantage to
forcing people to explain their opinions in a document is
that it is much easier for us to analyze an opinion when
it is in a document.
It is very difficult to analyze verbal
opinions because we quickly forget a lot of the information, and we
remember some of it incorrectly. Verbal opinions need to be transcribed
into a document.
These concepts apply to all situations
The concept of forcing
people to produce a document of their "brilliant" opinions applies every
conflict. For example, when a married couple has a
dispute, they would benefit if each of them were pressured into writing
a
document to explain the problem and their solution to it, and to
compare the advantages and disadvantages of their solution to their
spouse's solution.
That would put pressure on both of them to analyze the problem in a
more serious manner. Furthermore, if the married couple saved those
documents,
they would be able to look through them when they got older, and that
would help them determine which of them tends to make
the most intelligent suggestions, and which of them caused the most
disputes.
This concept also applies to business
meetings that are intended to resolve an issue. The person who
wants the meeting should begin by writing a document to explain the
problem
and what he plans to discuss at the meeting, and then he would let the
employees
read it.
The employees would then have the opportunity to respond to his
document with questions and suggestions, and then everybody would be
able to read those responses. This would allow the person who requested
the meeting to discover if some of the employees are misinterpreting
his document, in which case he could edit it. He would also be able to
edit his document to answer some of the questions in those responses.
The employees would then repeat the cycle by reading his revised
document, and responding to it.
That cycle of creating documents, reading other people's documents, and
then editing the documents, could occur
for many times before they had their meeting, assuming that they decide
they still need to get together for a meeting. It is possible that some
issues would be resolved through that process.
As with the married couples, if the business saved those documents, it
would allow them to discover who has the most
intelligent analyses and suggestions.
Scientists follow that type of a procedure. They produce a
document to explain their latest work, and they allow other scientists
to read it and think about it. The other scientists can respond, and
then they look at those responses. This cycle repeats endlessly. The
scientists
develop a lot of knowledge without actually getting together in the
same building for meetings. Furthermore, by saving the documents, they
eventually
notice that some scientists are contributing more information than
average.
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