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That seems prematurely pessimistic to me. We are only in the science and physics business for a relatively short period of time, even if you take ancient develo
by danbruc 10y ago
That seems prematurely pessimistic to me. We are only in the science and physics business for a relatively short period of time, even if you take ancient developments into account. And if you focus on modern science and physics, it is more like a blink of an eye. Only a century ago we realized how wrong we were about the fundamental things because we only had experiences at human scales before.
Who is to say that there will not be another revolutionary change in our understanding of the universe just like relativity and quantum mechanics? Or two or five. In ten years or a hundred years or a million years?
Maybe it comes from a totally unexpected direction. Maybe we next learn how minds work and this makes us discover that something build deep into it obstructs or view of reality. It wouldn't be the first time that our natural intuition about the world lead us astray for millennia.