CHOOSING and FILTERING

                                        CHOOSING and FILTERING

 "I was at the age when one felt like one needed to read everything, which prevented one from making contemplative stops"- Taleb. 

This happens to most of us. 

In a way it is good initially more the merrier.  Then we end up getting lost with excess of fuzziness than real assimilation.

The INSTINCT/IMPULSE to filter and be selective come with prejudices and biases to NARROWING DOWN on only a few things but the ABILITY to do so come with enhanced matured way to choose and decide and end up CONSOLIDATING our radius of receptivity.

Sometimes, many other factors like time constraints, lack of resources etc too limit our options.

I cannot resist quoting my favorite author here. 

" The ability to choose an action that best satisfies conflicting goals is not an add-on to intelligence that engineers might slap themselves in the forehead for forgetting to install! It IS intelligence"- Steven Pinker

" Understanding does not obey Moore's Law: knowledge is acquired by formulating explanations and testing them against reality, not by running an algorithm faster and faster. Devouring the information in the Internet will not confer omniscience either: big data is still finite data, and the universe of knowledge is infinite" - Steven Pinker