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I’d say they don’t matter nearly so much as art. The most cosmically significant export of humanity to date is Voyager’s golden record.
by inopinatus 7y ago
I’d say they don’t matter nearly so much as art. The most cosmically significant export of humanity to date is Voyager’s golden record.
- guerrilla 7y agoGood thing the founders of modern science, mathematics, ethics and political theory didn't share the same opinion.
- inopinatus 7y agoRidiculous hubris, to claim to speak on their behalf, to claim to know the opinion of so many and diverse minds, and in such a crude misdirection to boot.
- guerrilla 7y agoGood thing they wrote volumes about it which have debated and summarized to the hilt.
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- inopinatus 7y agoThe summary is that without art, humans are cosmically uninteresting.
- iovrthoughtthis 7y agoI would like some stuff to read on this if possible.
- guerrilla 7y agoSEP contains dense summaries of every major thinker with extremely high quality references. Random example https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/
- DeathArrow 7y agoWhile art is certainly very important, I believe it doesn't have the same impact upon our lives as math has. And if you believe art is about creativity, you can find beauty and art in in mathematics and other sciences. Many great mathematicians were also art lovers, they appreciated music, they appreciated paintings and other forms of art. I don't think there's a dichotomy between art and sciences.
- inopinatus 7y agoI agree 100% with everything you say. However, I don’t believe that the “impact on lives” of scientific advances, whilst certainly being of tremendous interest and importance to the humans, carries into much universal significance.