amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
So as your life heads into future, you navigate based on information. Most people's minds probably don't trap raw data in precise form, when it informs them, but likely must transfer it into integrated impulses which condition their future reactions. Likewise with anecdotes. But the failure of the human mind to precisely capture data, is likely why anecdotes are found to be useful. Looking back at your life then, how much of what you learned was likely the result of encountering anecdotal information as opposed to data? And assuming that the majority of what you learned was from anecdotes, and that this is due to the limitation of general human physiology, then is data a subject of scrutiny? For if you could not succeed in imbibing raw data, but must learn through anecdotal information, which is often a close cousin to real experience, then data is not very potent as an informing force