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LOL, I think a better question is can people unlearn?

• rovr138 5y ago
  I’ve forgotten a lot of things I’ve learned.
  • Ekaros 5y ago
    I used to be pretty decent in high school math, chemistry and physics... Now I only vaguely can recall that stuff. Show me some problem or something and I might not be sure what to apply or where to start anymore.
• actually_a_dog 5y ago
  You seem to be assuming that people (as a whole) actually learn from the past and their mistakes. You know the saying, though: "history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme." We just keep making a lot of the same mistakes as a species, over and over again. :/
  • avmich 5y ago
    We also avoiding some of the past mistakes, so that should qualify. E.g. historically Europe is a rather peaceful continent last few decades.
    • Ekaros 5y ago
      Situation has changed... Still, somehow we did not learn from WW1 to WW2...
• hcta 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle "Science progresses one funeral at a time" basically says that people, even very smart people, can't unlearn, so the only way humanity as a whole can unlearn is via people dying off. Maybe it's a problem we should give more attention before tackling aging.
  • avmich 5y ago
    I think this is rather lopsided statement of the idea. It's not the only way; but it's one of the ways.