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To look for the most truthful conversation about a topic, I search for those who actually care about the topic and have experience caring about it. The true nerds.
I will always start by seeking out the most passionate who can romance me about the complexities and wonders I am just beginning to learn about.
You can't fake authentic passion because it is lived breathed and demonstrated from every pore. One sings about their work as if it were a lover.
This acknowledges the truth that truth-seeking is a social process of mutual learning and pursuit and a movement towards greater fullness of engagement with. This also gives the sciences a prime directive to present the value they disclose: to reveal the beauty of the world the scientist studies.
To put it another way: "one cannot parse truth without parsing love."
Charles Sanders Peirce had a limit theory of truth.
He defined the truth of what a team of dedicated researchers would agree upon after an investigation lasting an infinite period of time. This is of course impossible to practically reach, but it can be grasped towards and requires the endless responsibility of grasping towards.
Me: a complete idiot:
"What if I simply apply indefinite integration and save an infinite amount of work?"
And so I accidentally parsed the entire calculus as a metaphysical principle and it implied a romance that has haunted me for 15 years.