A Minutiae of Experience
"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired." Jonathan Swift 1721, A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter’d Into Holy Orders by a Person of Quality When I was young I used to have more energy in my inane deliberations over pointless matters. One of the matters over which I've fruitlessly pondered over often, was the importance of experience in the current society. Of course, speaking strictly in professional sense; what I've found that there is this remarkable universality on the importance of experience, even where the situation does not strictly demand it. Nevertheless, even if one assumes that this premise is true, the next question was: "Can it be compensated (or even surpassed) by Mathematics?" What is experience? Is it the fluency and familiarity, in the sum total of all possible responses to all possible situation which are likely to arise in the professional life of a designated job description?