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It’s humbling to me that there are 7 billion people on this planet. Many of them are highly educated. And we are running up against problems we can’t understand
by beamatronic 7y ago
It’s humbling to me that there are 7 billion people on this planet. Many of them are highly educated. And we are running up against problems we can’t understand. The fundamental nature of the universe.
- ganzuul 7y agoI think the problem is anthropocentrism. It's much like the IMO preposterous and archaic idea that a deity has to resemble us. People who study the fundamentals of quantum mechanics complain that philosophy is seen as useless. From my understanding this stems from how in detail the Copenhagen 'interpretation' took hold in particulary U.S. institutions; and it is entirely non-scientific. Copenhagen is an engineering discipline, and not a scientific theory. In natural philosophy we have to account for our position compared to the object we study. We are not separate from nature. Philosophy has many ideas which help us deal with our physical reality and they need to be taken seriously.