More than once, in private correspondence, I received such reproaches from quite friendly readers:

Why do you mislead readers by publishing your hypotheses, which you later refute yourself or simply contradict previously stated ones? Readers, unlike Esprit– “The Genius of all times and peoples and the Luminary of all Sciences,” they cannot be the same, and therefore they accept your fanciful ideas as quite serious and scientifically based!

The second reproach is similar to the first:

If you finally come up with some kind of right idea (at least in your opinion), then why do you keep fooling readers with your old and wrong thoughts and fantasies, which you yourself sometimes call “idiotic”? Delete them!

Since there were several such comments, I thought that not only those who write to me have similar questions and I should clarify the situation.

That’s what I’m doing.

Answers:

The accusations are fair, but they do not take into account the psychology of creative thinking.

I should immediately note that I do not claim the titles of I.V. Stalin and do not consider myself the leading man of all sciences, which I often inform readers about: Well, I am not an expert in this field of knowledge.

As for the term “genius”, I’ve been saying for a long time that there are no “geniuses” at all! And there are brilliant works created by mortals in rare and bright moments when divine Inspiration came to them. The term “genius” for any herd creature is a kind of eternal label tightly sewn to a living or dead person and OBLIGING any herd creature to consider everything created by this “genius” as genius. Even the products of his large intestine! Everything, everything, everything is pure genius. In fact, any very talented person is only a mortal being who can be in different states of mind, most often completely NON–GENIAL. This is not a machine programmed for sheer genius and nothing less! Therefore, the herd term “genius” is RIDICULOUS in its very essence!

So, my main apolgetic arguments are:

I come up with hypotheses, successful or unsuccessful, as they appear in my mind. As an excuse, I will cite Einstein himself, who from 1916 until his death in 1955 put forward and published many hypotheses that at that moment seemed to him to be a solution to the problem of Unified Field Theory. And every single one of them did not justify themselves! For any thinking person trying to solve a problem, this process of frequent failures, which at some point seem like a solution, is familiar and natural.

And me too!

But the most important thing is something else: I try to show readers not just my successful or unsuccessful guesses, but the way human thinking works, to unfold in front of readers the “FILM OF THE THINKING PROCESS” with all its mistakes, failures and rare insights crowning a successful solution to the problem! What is this “movie” for? It teaches the reader, unobtrusively and often even unconsciously, the process of building certain thought chains in our brain, and this, slowly or quickly, develops the reader’s propensity and ABILITY to build such chains!
Again, we are not talking about any kind of imposition, coercion, but about OFFERING a visual representation of the process itself:

Sliding his mind along my thought-tapes, the reader, willingly or unwittingly, recreates something similar in his brain and it only benefits him, at least by diversifying his own way of thinking. I don’t see anything wrong or malicious in this. ON THE CONTRARY! And I don’t hide from the reader at all that sometimes I still manage to come up with something successful, “find the lead

gear” of a phenomenon, event, or process.

I think I explained my motivation clearly and unambiguously,

If you have any questions, ask!

I’ll try to answer as much as I can…

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