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RE: New To Steemit, Who To Follow?
Gee, I'm seeing this too late thanks to steemit.chat's failure (therefore, not getting the mention notifications). Thanks for it!
Now, I expect YOU to create content! My articles are mere reflections of what other peoples's ideas trigger in my mind!
You're welcome.
One can argue that all human knowledge is a product of their experience, that is, every single piece of information they've managed to obtain from OTHER PEOPLE and the sensational experiences of life.
In essence, we're all triggering each other's minds to squeeze out content!
Nope, one of the rewards scientists have is... Being able to acquire knowledge no other person has. For a couple of days: You are the only person that knows something!
The secondary reward, is seeing how people builds stuff around your discovery/idea/theory.
All of the information a scientist has to work with is some empirical data and previous discoveries; insights from other scientists's work (past or present). It's all just collaborative work and building on our existing knowledge base. We then accumulate "new" insights into our repositories. Any one person's contribution is mostly insignificant compared to what we already know! But when all of that adds up through collaborative effort, what we have is truly glorious.
Also, "being able to acquire knowledge no one has" is not exclusive to scientists, like i said, they have some data and prior insights to work with, but these days, most of it is made public online in places like arxiv :)
What previous discovery led into the discovery of the controlled fire? the wheel? bow and arrows? Astronomy?
They may not have worn a white overall. But they were scientists in their time.
Several scientific discoveries were found by accident, yes, explainable by previous studies but they didn't rely on them to be found.
It is true that "data pooling" is the essence of humankind, nobody, ever, will be able to know everything. Yet, we can do try to know as much as possible!