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In ancient greece they were just as certain that consciousness comes from the liver. It's hard to know which facts that are completely obvious and self-evident
by Swizec 8y ago
In ancient greece they were just as certain that consciousness comes from the liver. It's hard to know which facts that are completely obvious and self-evident to us today, will be considered silly and misguided in the future as you new evidence arises.
- quotemstr 8y agoSure, and they also used a geocentric model of the solar system. Should we weigh our certainty of the truth of the heliocentric model the same as they weighed the truth of the geocentric model despite our vastly superior scientific methodology and body of evidence?
- fiatjaf 8y agoYou only think you know so much because you don't know what you don't know. For example, a "model" cannot be "true". A model is a model, reality is a different thing.
- akvadrako 8y agoYou don't know that. Models could be just as real as non-models, whatever those are.
- BalinKing 8y agoTrue, but we don’t have nearly the same amount of evidence for the nature of consciousness as we do for the structure of the solar system... instead, we’re relying largely on philosophy and “self-evident” facts.