Eternal Regress

After my recent foray into economics, this has become my internal lament:

It appears that I must try to understand everything in order to understand anything.

It feels like I’m constantly moving backwards when I try to understand anything. I founded this blog thinking that I would focus my thoughts on cognitive science, but I’ve found that my kernel of curiosity, allowed to express itself over a period of years, has smeared itself into an omnidirectional wave.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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  1. Avatar of Brynn Jacobs
    Brynn Jacobs

    I have a similar problem. Every time I begin to research a new area, my natural curiosity takes over and I end up reading all I can about the subject, then I branch into the related areas, then the areas related to those….

    Each time, I intend to only learn about a given subject, but the connections to other areas are irresistable.

  2. Avatar of James Johnson
    James Johnson

    Thanks for articulating a thought I've been having for a long time.

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