“I was given a list of ~7500 potential problems in a technical situation. I selected one as the likely cause. It was the cause, and resolved the issue. It’s not possible that I knew objectively what to select… I didn’t even scan more than 5% of the list. So there is another aspect of our putative ‘intelligence’ that isn’t getting enough airplay.

Recently, researchers claimed to ‘discover’ the largest organ in the body. How was this overlooked for the entire history of medical science? Perhaps we know far less about our lives, minds and relationships than is commonly pretended. I mean, not very long ago, researchers noted that ‘we don’t know what 90+% of the universe is…’

If I were to go after something according to ‘what is known’ communally or in research, I’d often be starting out by throwing 99% of what’s actual away. This would be like trying to say that a penny ‘was my mother’, because, after all… her actual name was Penny.”

— an anonymous informant