Re:Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's ...
by HSO on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:01PM
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> Note that Kuhn doesn't think that normal science is bad in general.
Yeah, I did not write that well. I was thinking too much about myself. From a population point of view, I agree with you (or Kuhn) that "normal science" is a necessary and valuable part of the enterprise. It would be inefficient to have everybody constantly questioning everything. You need the "normals" to milk a given paradigm for all its worth and the rebels to keep the paradigm, if you will, "on its toes" and replace it when the time has come.
It seems to me commerce is not dissimilar. Not everybody can or should be a wide-eyed entrepreneur. You need people who compete within a business model (in the process wringing all the efficiencies to be had out of it) as well as entrepreneurs who create and thus compete between business models.
I wonder if there is an optimal proportion between entrepreneurial/rebellious "predators" and "normals".
Yeah, I did not write that well. I was thinking too much about myself. From a population point of view, I agree with you (or Kuhn) that "normal science" is a necessary and valuable part of the enterprise. It would be inefficient to have everybody constantly questioning everything. You need the "normals" to milk a given paradigm for all its worth and the rebels to keep the paradigm, if you will, "on its toes" and replace it when the time has come.
It seems to me commerce is not dissimilar. Not everybody can or should be a wide-eyed entrepreneur. You need people who compete within a business model (in the process wringing all the efficiencies to be had out of it) as well as entrepreneurs who create and thus compete between business models.
I wonder if there is an optimal proportion between entrepreneurial/rebellious "predators" and "normals".