The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.”

Hypotheses
1. Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.
2. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.
3. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy.
4. If they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.

Scary (some, like #3), but true: The Ten Most Disturbing Scientific Discoveries

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“While I thus wished to think that everything was false, it was necessarily the case that I, who was thinking this, was something” -Descartes

Above, Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader

New Scientist: The entropy force: a new direction for gravity

Erik Verlinde’s paper: On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton (pdf)

“Where do the laws themselves come from?”

Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information
by Vlatko Vedral