6.1 Science Advances One Funeral at a Time

Thomas Kuhn[kuhn] documented carefully that most holders of an old paradigm never come around. They don’t eventually see the light.

They retire and die. The next generation of students, who learned the new map before it had any enemies, who have no old identity to protect, just grow up thinking it's obvious. Max Planck: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."1 This is connected to the magnetization seedpod, the new map spreads not by argument but by 2.