More thoughts on Novum Organum

We can not keep doing the same old things and expect different results. (I think that this is a the definition of insanity.) Whenever, we keep getting the same thing over and over again, we fail to look at what we are doing to cause it.

There is a an argument in education as to what it means to improve education. If we could find the way to improve education, then we could find ways to improve the human mind. While education is individual and personal, the field of education is doing very little to personalize education. Bacon observed that we are doing very little to improve the human mind. We are also doing very little to find the truth. "We tend to believe what we want to believe." It seems to be that way with subjects such as global warming.

Bacon holds a discussion on the inadequacy of our words. The problems with language is that words bring to mind different images according to our own experiences. While the word "cold" might mean images of snow flakes to some, in Arizona, it might mean images of ice cubes in a glass of water.

There is also a distortion of history due to words, but also do to our own experience. The other problems with history are due to the meaning of words changing, but also limited point of view. It is very difficult to get every one's vision of an event. As we compare points of view, we will see discrepancies due to the varying perspectives.