The butt determines what the brain says, it is those who are limited by experience. The cognitive range of the brain forms an area centered around the position of the butt. Imagination and intuition are larger than this area, while logic can break through the boundaries of these three and reach places that have never been experienced or imagined. What's even more impressive is that logic can discover truth from known facts. The scientific edifice is built with logic as its reinforcement and framework.
Logic can discover the essence of things that the senses cannot perceive. Logic is a microscope that can analyze the internal structure of atoms that instruments cannot see clearly. Logic is a telescope that can speculate on events that will happen in the distant future. The ability of logical thinking is a unique ability given to humans by the Creator, distinguishing them from other animals. However, most people live in their experiences and do not like or are not accustomed to using logic to view things. Even when logic contradicts experience, some people choose to believe in experience, but they are often proven wrong by reality.
During the summer vacation when mobile phones were just beginning to become popular, I told my uncle in the village about a classmate in my class who bought a mobile phone, which was a wireless telephone. My uncle's first reaction was disbelief, saying that he had never heard of a wireless telephone. I told him that televisions also don't need wires, but they can still receive images and sounds from thousands of miles away. Mobile phones work on the same principle. My uncle is the kind of person who lives in his experiences, and he only believed me after I used logic to analyze it for him. Everyone's experiences are different, but logic is universal. If you use logic to analyze your experiences, you will find many contradictions and loopholes because some experiences are unreliable. Some people may say that they have analyzed it and have not found any problems with their experiences. I can only say that the results of analyzing for one day and analyzing for ten days, or analyzing one step and analyzing ten steps, are very different.
The essence of science is actually to make experiences logical, or to connect as many experiences as possible with logic. In this process, some experiences are found to be incorrect.
For two thousand years before the birth of non-Euclidean geometry, humans had not discovered any problems with their experiences of space. It was not until non-Euclidean geometry appeared that mathematicians who created non-Euclidean geometry discovered that Euclidean parallel postulate could not be proven using logic. They proposed a new postulate that "through a point, at least two parallel lines can be drawn," which led to Riemannian geometry (hyperbolic geometry). They also proposed a new postulate that "not even one parallel line can be drawn," which led to Riemannian geometry (elliptic geometry). Because non-Euclidean geometry contradicted human past experiences, it was initially met with coldness and resistance, but it was logical. Later, Riemannian geometry in non-Euclidean geometry was used by Einstein as a mathematical tool to deal with the theory of general relativity. This is an example in the history of science where experience contradicts logic, and in the end, logic prevails. Experience is the accumulation of past history, which brings a sense of security to people, but it is also a prison of self-imprisonment. Logic can connect the past and the present and lead to the future. The Creator designed this world according to logic. Using logic to filter experiences will make experiences purer; using logic to expand experiences will make experiences grow faster.
Don't think that only scientists need logic and ordinary people don't. Just take chess as an example. Can someone who doesn't use logic or only looks five steps ahead defeat someone who looks ten steps ahead?
However, you cannot investigate, analyze, and study like a scientist before every action and decision. Only important actions and decisions require such an approach. Many of people's daily behaviors and decisions are made based on intuition, but intuition can be of varying quality. Some people train, nurture, and verify their intuition with experience, while others use logic in addition to experience to assist in training and verifying their intuition. I think the intuition of the latter group of people is more powerful.
Some people are sensitive to intuition, some people enjoy imagination, some people are good at logic, and some people are rich in creativity. But no matter which one, they all rely on experience as their training feed and put effort into their inner selves. Playing to one's strengths and avoiding weaknesses, doing what one is good at and enjoys, is the happiest way.
Having imagination is not difficult, having logic is not difficult, what is difficult is combining the two. Imagination is embedded with logic, and logic overflows with imagination. Things with this characteristic shine with a peculiar brilliance, from Wang Xiaobo's articles to the greatest scientific theories of today.
Although there are paradoxes in logic and the incompleteness theorem of Gödel, their influence has not yet surpassed the academic field. In real life, logic still has great usefulness. Although what is logical may not always work in reality, it is necessary to carefully consider what contradicts logic because it contains cracks and dangers of destruction.