Every person grows into having their own beliefs of the world and humans themselves. Having these different beliefs come from thinking about possible worlds and which possibilities of the world the person believes in. Alison Gopnik speaks more in depth of counterfactual thoughts and possible worlds in her essay, “Possible Worlds: Why Do Children Pretend?” Gopnik believes every person has the ability to think counterfactually of the past and the future. Those counterfactual thoughts lead to creating possible worlds. Each possible world can be a possibility of what one might think what would’ve or could’ve happened. Those possible worlds can be in this case two different types of beliefs that can be either a religious or scientific beliefs. In
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It makes one think of other possibilities that can get to the same point but in a different way. Gopnik believed in different possibilities created possible worlds when stating, “If causal knowledge and counterfactual thinking go together, then this might explain how young children have the parallel ability to generate counterfactuals and to explore possible worlds”(175). Having the right knowledge meaning being aware of every aspect of anything allows you to think counterfactually. If one is aware of the causal knowledge, one is able to see the whole picture and think of different possibilities. Those different possibilities are the counterfactual thoughts of the past or future leading to thoughts of possible worlds. The possible world of what is another explanation of the creation of the world besides the scientific one. What goes beyond the explanation that scientist gives and Goodall asks the same question in her essay, “The Big Bang theory is yet another example of the incredible, the awe-inspiring ability of the human mind to learn about seemingly unknowable phenomena in the beginning of time. Time as we know it, or think we know it. But what about before time? And what about beyond space?”(149). The scientist believe in the Big Bang theory and evolution, but Goodall questions what happened before the Big Bang theory and evolution. What was out there before the science? Goodall being a scientist herself has the right causal knowledge of science and yet questions what happened before and the science. Her questioning drew her to think what was beyond space and science and thinking even more past the Big Bang theory. Her counterfactual thoughts was looking for other possibilities besides from a scientific window. Goodall was looking for a different possible world, but what are the other possible
It makes one think of other possibilities that can get to the same point but in a different way. Gopnik believed in different possibilities created possible worlds when stating, “If causal knowledge and counterfactual thinking go together, then this might explain how young children have the parallel ability to generate counterfactuals and to explore possible worlds”(175). Having the right knowledge meaning being aware of every aspect of anything allows you to think counterfactually. If one is aware of the causal knowledge, one is able to see the whole picture and think of different possibilities. Those different possibilities are the counterfactual thoughts of the past or future leading to thoughts of possible worlds. The possible world of what is another explanation of the creation of the world besides the scientific one. What goes beyond the explanation that scientist gives and Goodall asks the same question in her essay, “The Big Bang theory is yet another example of the incredible, the awe-inspiring ability of the human mind to learn about seemingly unknowable phenomena in the beginning of time. Time as we know it, or think we know it. But what about before time? And what about beyond space?”(149). The scientist believe in the Big Bang theory and evolution, but Goodall questions what happened before the Big Bang theory and evolution. What was out there before the science? Goodall being a scientist herself has the right causal knowledge of science and yet questions what happened before and the science. Her questioning drew her to think what was beyond space and science and thinking even more past the Big Bang theory. Her counterfactual thoughts was looking for other possibilities besides from a scientific window. Goodall was looking for a different possible world, but what are the other possible