BarryLawsAndPrecepts

From a conversation with BH (4 June 2001):

Barry's Laws

• "Self-evaluation tends to be 180 degrees out."
• "All double-features work." (i.e., the human mind can link any two things; all human thought is either lumping or splitting) (double-features as in movies)
• "There is always scaffolding." (in music, literature, etc.)
• "There are no bimbos."

Barry's Precepts

• "Boredom is a sin."
• "The path to the highest humanity passes through dehumanization." (i.e., reductionism)
• "There is a truth higher than mere accuracy."
• "Inevitably a geezer, never a codger!"

TopicPhilosophy - TopicLife - TopicThinking - Datetag20010818

(correlates: InBalance, OldMasters, EngineeringVersusScience, ...)

Amusingly, Barry's First Law (self-evaluations tend to be 180 degrees out) was actually experimentally verified in 1999 - Unskilled and Unaware of It.