29 Jun 2010
The Anosognosic’s Dilemma

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know ...

There are a zillion things I don’t know. And I know that I don’t know them. But what about the unknown unknowns? Are they like a scotoma, a blind spot in our field of vision that we are unaware of? I kept wondering if Rumsfeld’s real problem was with the unknown unknowns; or was it instead some variant of self-deception, thinking that you know something that you don’t know. A problem of hubris, not epistemology.

(link) [New York Times: Opinionator]

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