I got a wish for not getting a seasick in my voyage of sailing the literature. Funny Professor :) Now I know the name of the symptoms I got recently. I read too many literature without knowing their basic assumptions. After trying to slow down and investigate their ontologies, things became a bit clearer for me. There are many things to do, but I am happy with the distraction I got from other area. It made me reflect why this journey is hard for me. I never thought it's going to be this difficult, but know I realize that I am still a positivist. I even feel I am getting dumber since I lost certainty in knowing what I know.
And the key is Einstein's quote, "As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality they are not certain, and so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality". I love certainty (or robustness) in mathematics even if it's not refer to reality. And now I am drowning in the sea of uncertainty.
I have to finish the journey that I start almost four years ago and then back to modelling
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