(Hyper-)deterministic chaos and finding certainty in uncertainty; my route to resilience through accumulating knowledge
("science as a candle in the dark", so to speak)
-relation between speculation and skepticism - and what believing and questioning /curiosity have to do with that.
As a child I was often afraid of uncertainty. Yet, my love for science has somehow helped me calm down...
"With science I could find certainty in utter uncertainty."
Or, as to quote Marie Curie:
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Understanding brings an impression of security and calm.
Although full comprehension of any matter might still be a mere sort of idealistic fantasy, nothing is certain, everything is probabilistic.
Probabilities alter and change with every iteration (increase of overall knowledge); - change, increase and decrease over time of their dynamical nature.
There might be nothing we will ever know for certain, but is uttermost, 100% certainty even desirable? Wouldn't the final absolute knowledge make any further progress and curiosity obsolete?
The point of believing was never to stop to think, its point was never to prohibit us to question our mere reality, our own identity and our origins;
The point of believing is finding out if one's assumption might be true. It wants us to question.
Believing and curiosity, have a relation towards each other like speculation and skepticsm: They depend on each other in a creative and (semi-/non-linear) logical reasoning process.
Where one creates assumptions with speculation (diverging factor), skepticism lets these assumptions synthesize, alter, interfere and reduce the quantity of overall parallel assumptions to a more concrete, more rigorously logically consistent and sufficiently valid explanation model. (converging factor).
Curiosity has its own reason to exist. - and that reason is progress, perpetuating the plain natural cycle of creation and destruction, maintaining the net-like chain reaction of existence, so to speak... It means challenging the status quo to ensure survival.
Progress was never linear and never should be.