John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism, Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC...
The bell curve is an ideal and like all ideologies there are limits to its utility. Pattern recognition software and biochemical calculations regulate our intentionality. A symbiosis between man and machine. Black swans and other such extremophiles lie dormant in oceans of randomness. Be careful.
Self-taught, the autodidactic suspend disbelieve in favour of future knowledge. Hardly a negation of sorts, the utility of the skeptic razor is to sharpen the intellect, harness the emotive centers and move towards a place of homeostasis.
