Destruction by Refinement

Sean McClure
1 min readMar 6, 2024

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There is a sudden drop off in quality that occurs in the attempt to fine tune one’s work.

Refinement violates the immediate insight gifted us by nature, removing the essence of our original argument; the spirit of our intuition.

In our vain effort to adjust, calibrate and tweak our realization its actuality drowns, replaced with some contrived simulacrum of what we had.

The modern addiction to exploration and inquiry causes us to squander the ingrained, the inherent, the instinctive.

We spend countless hours chasing our work’s distillation without recognizing the lethality of our aim. Nature doesn’t give based on investigation but rather on acceptance.

That which resides in our most immediate senses is the grandest of targets. Anything spawned by man must chase that which is ineffable.

People perceive certainty by demonstration, not explanation. There is no greater testimony to truth than mere announcement.

The only refinement worth any profit is our bettered awareness of how we might best create in the now.

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Sean McClure
Sean McClure

Written by Sean McClure

Independent Scholar; Author of Discovered, Not Designed; Ph.D. Computational Chem; Builder of things; I study and write about science, philosophy, complexity.

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