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The mind, Holmes told Watson, is like an attic. "You have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out." Holmes stocked his...
Holmes believed in a sort of Doctrine of Discriminating Obliviousness. He professed ignorance of the Copernican design of the solar system. "What the deuce is it to me?" he asked. "You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth...
It is difficult, of course, to "choose" our knowledge, as Holmes advised. We live in inundations of information. The air is dense with billions of fleeting names, images, factoids, electronic dust. Information jitters round in a Brownian movement. But there is a way to impose order on this incoherence. The...