User:Colby

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Me: My name is Cameron Colby Thomson (typically Colby).

Background:

  • Personality: I am most often described by friends as light-hearted, easy going, and extremely silly. My belief is that the more you understand the way the world works, the funnier everything gets. According to the MBTI my personality type is ENTP (see interpretation 2 3 4). The Gallup 'Strengths Finder' tells me that my top five strengths are: Strategic, Ideation, Self-Assurance, Relator, Adaptability. (see description)


Hobby and Passtime:


Knowledge, Interest:


Wikipedia: Approach to Intellectual Contribution:

  • Humble, Curious Skepticism: I am a very spiritualy-open person, and a very logic-oriented person at the same time. I believe in using reason as the primary tool to understand and evaluate the basis for my knowledge, and in this way I am a skeptic. On the other hand, I do not feel I should allow reason to inappropriately constrain what I consider possible simply because I lack the depth of knoweldge, technolgy, or fundemental capacity to fully and confidently evaluate the issue. Since historical experience teaches me not to have undue confidence in the accuracy and completeness of popular human knowledge (including my own), this requires me to be very open minded. For these reasons, and because of my belief in the power of the subconscious mind, I actively incorporate both intuition and reason into my decision making and opinion forming, and understand that others will do the same.
  • No Formal Assocations: Though not free from strong opinions and beliefs, I remain un-invested from affiliation with any particular religion or dogma, ethnic group, philosophical framework, political ideology or party, fanatical brand loyalty, or academic school of thought. Instead of connecting to the world through an intermediary, I prefer to bear the responsibility of a direct relationship between myself and the issue at hand whenever possible. I do so to fully engage myself in the learning process and so that I may always be able to freely choose what I feel is best. I feel this benefits my continued learning in that I am able to reflect, adapt, and be true to my beliefs and opinions without the fear and the mental cost of being torn from affiliation with a formal perspective.
  • Life-long Independent Thinking and Re-thinking: Rather than buying into any particular platform, I evalutate the merits of memes individually, and for their qualities in specific scenarios and for specific people at discrete points in time. I recognize the inherent social process of interpretive, semantic, and cultural bias, and I am aware of historiography and historical revisionism. I believe that learning and re-learning is a life long process, and I try make sure that I am always willing to exchange 'things I think I know' for deeper, more revealing and better 'fitting' truths as new information and experience become available to me. Simultaneously, I actively consider the frailty of knowledge, and the individuality of experience (relativist fallacy aside) when considering the confidence that I feel others should have in my position. Hence, there is no great shame in being wrong; only in closing your mind and ending the learning process. Though I am not entirely against objectivity, I might as well throw in Quantum indeterminacy and the Consequences of Special Relativity regarding observation, measurement, and simultaneity.
  • Why do I support Wikipedia?: What I'm getting at with all of this garbage, is that I believe it is important that everyone is entitled to express, form, and re-form their own opinions. I feel that the practice of doing so within the context of Wikipedia's public reference-oriented neutral-point-of-view editorial community is not only a healthy activity for society but a valuable public resource.


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Thanks, Colby 05:46, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

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