Let me state clearly, everything in this blog is derivative of Thomas S Kuhn's landmark The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The reader, possessed of reasonable intellectual talent, would easily do as well or better reading it. I suggest you do so.
First, I wish to emphasize the point that paradigm shifts happen in an instrumentalist fashion. One creates a model of significant explanatory power in terms of natural phenomena, however fluid and idiosyncratic their perception, as a general case. In competition with other models, this model proves the better. It is then, over generations as is the human Way, adopted.
One cannot author a paradigm shift. Any attempt to do so will shortcut the proper role of reason and probably do neurological damage to the brain. That is the classic mistake of the pedagogical megalomaniac who believes that the mind is theirs to shape.
Do Well and Be Well.
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