About Me
All tragedies are finish'd by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage.
If I ever set down my life story, then I hope it to be a veritable comedy of errors. Why?
The archetypal comedy has a happy outcome for the lead character owing to the presence of error-correction, whereby the lead kills off bad ideas before bad ideas kill off the lead. This is unlike the archetypal tragedy in which the error gets compounded rather than corrected, and so the lead’s failure to kill off bad ideas results in bad ideas killing off the lead.
Being wedded to bad ideas, especially dogma, is therefore an ever-present danger. The corrected errors of my past are one thing. My remaining yet-to-be-corrected-errors are another undiscovered country altogether. But my errors, past and present, are important to me. I strive to discover and correct any personal misconceptions. It is impossible to predict whatever they may be, because if I could predict today what I would discover tomorrow, I would know it already.
My name is Adil Zeshan. I am driven by curiosity. I’m a lifelong student of evolution, economics, culture, learning, long-lived ideas, and many others, and I explore them in the light of critical rationalism. To this purpose, the quest for discovering error, personal or otherwise, is what I’m fascinated in. Welcome!
Epilogue
We could then say that rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to critical arguments and to learn from experience. It is fundamentally an attitude of admitting that 'I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth'.