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>>it's mind-boggling how removed from reality people can get, even people with a supposed science education. There's an old adage that science advances one fun
by stone-monkey 7y ago
>>it's mind-boggling how removed from reality people can get, even people with a supposed science education.
There's an old adage that science advances one funeral at a time - The scientific community is far from immune to this problem. People who are trained and employed full time to apply critical thinking and empirical testing still fall for superstition. It's an unsolvable problem until we reach a point where we can replace human brains with cold, unfeeling robots.
- orange8 7y ago>> It's an unsolvable problem until we reach a point where we can replace human brains with cold, unfeeling robots. That would be a gigantic step back. You under-estimate just how powerful that organ between your ears is.
- apocalypstyx 7y agoI'll probably stand with Hume on this one: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."