Annaka Harris

And so he said, let's open them up.

And he got a towel and we put the marbles on the towel and got a hammer and he smashed them all.

And lo and behold, it was all glass.

I remember it's like the first time I had that feeling of realizing, wow, the truth was so different from what I expected.

And I like that feeling.

And of course, we need to be able to do that to understand that the earth is flat, to understand the germ theory of disease, to understand long processes in nature like evolution.

I mean, we just can never really intuit that we share genes with ants.

Did I say that?

But I actually like to think about- See, this is why I need to write and not speak.

Well, it's interesting because you can see, I mean, the intuition is so strong.

I just said it.

Yeah.

No, and I think, I mean, the truth is that when those observations were first made, when the celestial observations were made that revealed this fact to us,

I can't remember how long it took, but I think it was close to 100 years before it was actually accepted as common knowledge that we're no longer the center of the universe, or of course we never were.

And that's true almost every time we have a breakthrough like that.

that challenges our intuitions.

There's usually a period of time where we have to, and this is an important part of the process because often our intuitions give us good information.

And so when the science goes against, when our scientific observations go against our intuitions, it's important for us

to let that in and to see which side is going to win.

And once it's clear that the evidence is winning, then there's this period of time where we have to grapple with our intuitions and shift the way we frame our worldview and go through that process.