It's okay to be wrong. After all, nobody knows.
Translated by GPT
It’s Okay to Be Wrong. Nobody Knows Anyway.
We live in an era of uncertainty. Despite the advent of AI, job insecurity, and worries about employment, the world is advancing rapidly. The experience of being overwhelmed even before feeling FOMO is quite complex.
In times like these, we need to take bold steps, but many people are anxious about being wrong. Here’s what I want to say to those people:
“Nobody knows anyway.”
In fact, philosophers provided answers to these issues decades ago.
A hundred years ago, when quantum mechanics was emerging, philosophy was still stuck in the Newtonian era. There was a belief that physics could create a theory for everything, and that mathematics was complete. Within this flow, philosophy concluded that the world could be explained logically.
Then, with the advent of quantum mechanics, philosophy was shaken. Previously, phenomena and observation were separated under Cartesian dualism, but observing quantum mechanics, where phenomena change through observation, led to the conclusion that phenomena are not objective.
Mathematics also faced a significant flaw with Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Philosophy was left with nowhere to lean.
Recently, the neuroscience theory that the brain constantly predicts rather than recognizes patterns supports the philosophical proposition that the same phenomenon can lead to different interpretations.
Philosophy aims for universal inquiry. Human history has been in constant conflict over questions like what is right. However, the answers philosophy now provides have shifted to local and analytical domains depending on perspective, as universality has been proven impossible from the start.
Nevertheless, the world we were educated in was built on the belief that it is universal and predictable. This is true not only for education in Korea but worldwide. Now, we should change the question and say that we learned universal knowledge only from specific perspectives.
In the end, there are no answers. The anxiety comes from trying to interpret my life from a universal perspective. Therefore, if you boldly challenge from the perspective of success that you define, your actions become the right answer.
Act according to your stubbornness, on the path you believe is right. And take responsibility. We must abandon the weak thought that the state, society, or others can take responsibility for our lives.