We award humans who are expert in a field and repetition. This is however contradictory to our human nature; we are curious by nature and naturally like to explore and do variety of things. Why do reward based on industrial standards as opposed to human standards?
2007-11-28 11:19:45 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
That's an excellent insight. My opinion is that we do both. We need to reward on repetition due to our need to pass on knowledge through communication. Without communication, we have kaos.
We need to be able to pass on our body of knowledge through communication with other human beings. So our knowledge becomes limited by the language we use, which must remain sufficiently recognizable to enough people, so that discoveries that add new information about new or existing phenomena can be understood. Often the same phenomena is observed for generations till someone finds a way to explain it in the language of the day. The standards ensures continuity and avoids a chaotic approach to our living history.
Innovation comes when someone does make the breakthrough that adds new terminology to our language, allowing us to follow along with the new discovery, while at these same time, fitting it neatly into what we already know.
2007-11-28 11:37:11 · answer #1 · answered by livemoreamply 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, took me a second to figure out the entirty of your question. I would say that we award those people becasue they beat us to the punch. They figured out what we would eventually figure out faster and revealed it to us sooner. Also we are rewarding them becasue they did the work so that the ones that did not can learn from it.
2007-11-28 19:31:24 · answer #2 · answered by Iris's Lover aka Garrett O. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't stop the curious nature, you bring it up to speed on current knowledge. The curious nature will then not waist time on rediscovery.
2007-11-28 19:31:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋