In
no particular order, my 20 things to take the time to master in life to attain
an enriched & exhilarated mind:
1)
Hume's distinction between causality and causation, and the fact that
everything we know comes from experience
2)
That mathematics is the territory and physics is the map, not the other way
around
3)
Aumann's Agreement Theorem
4)
Price Theory
5)
Applying nature's principles of natural selection and the law of parsimony to
human applications of behaviour
6)
Bastiat's principle of 'That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen', and the Broken Window Fallacy.
7)
The nature of logic: that logic is derived from
experience and arises out of our own conceptualising of the world
8)
That everything to do with God is both a creation and a discovery
9)
That the free will and determinism topic is not an 'either/or' proposition - it
is a mathematical spectrum.
10)
Harsanyi's Amnesia Principle
11)
That morality is both objective and a human invention
12)
The principles of Comparative Advantage
13)
That competition and exchanges of goods, services and ideas are the primary
things that drive progress
14)
The Ideological Turing Test
15)
The Coase Theorem and Pareto Efficiency
16)
Which 'unequal outcome' situations are problems that need solving, and which
are simply an aggregation of individual differences.
17)
That physics and metaphysics seamlessly blend into one another's territories
18)
The sorites paradox and its application to human ideas
19)
The fundamental details that make up the great enrichment and the hockey stick
of human progression
20) That the sovereignty,
rights and liberties of the individual are primary over any group or
association that individual has
