You know that moment when a dog sees something he doesn’t quite understand? When he tilts his head a little bit to one side, as if viewing the perplexing phenomenon from another angle will help? That state of confusion, that huh?, may be a problem for the dog, but it’s awfully cute to us. That’s because for humans, a state of momentary confusion offers not just frustration but an opening.
Team Human has the ability to tolerate and even embrace ambiguity. The stuff that makes our thinking and behavior messy, confusing, or anomalous is both our greatest strength and our greatest defense against the deadening certainty of machine logic.
But it’s precisely this ambiguity — and the ability to embrace it — that characterizes the collectively felt human experience.
Read more from “Ambiguity Defines the Human Experience” from
Medium’s weekly #TeamHuman serialization:
https://medium.com/team-human/ambiguity-defines-the-human-experience-36dad5667ac6
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We would be mistaken to emulate the certainty of our computers
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