Relying on Accurate Information Makes for a Simplistic Definition of Truth

Relying on accurate information sounds smart, but makes for an overly-simplistic definition of truth. It suggests truth comes from reliable sources, rather than emergent patterns that survive amidst noise.

The latter is how information works in natural settings. Truth is an invariance that sticks around amidst a necessary cacophony of error and detail.

It is the human mind’s ability to see what endures critical thinking and universal pattern recognition that makes a thing true. Truth can only exist at the meta level, above the details that change and feed the abstract invariance.

Stop treating human nature like a search engine.

There is nothing intelligent about focusing on minutia. The human mind has the correct framework; use it.