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Interesting, drawing parllels to religion here. In the end it might be our genes and the inherent tribalism driving us to behave that way, while thinking we are
by scns 5y ago
Interesting, drawing parllels to religion here. In the end it might be our genes and the inherent tribalism driving us to behave that way, while thinking we are rational agents. There is an essay about it IIRC, the Lambda tribe and the Machine tribe.
- Zababa 5y agoTalking about things I don't really understand here, but there's a nice parallel to draw to Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Same thing with the blind men and the elephant, or 2D lizards that see a cube pass through their dimension. Maybe we're cursed to only ever see part of the truth, and only be able to understand part of it. Maybe there's no single "truth" at all and we have to learn to deal with this.
- scns 5y agoWe are not cursed, we just can't see it. Immanuel Kant called reality "Das Ding an sich", which i can try to translate as "The thing in itself". He showed, that since we perceive reality via our senses, which are easily fooled, we can never be sure that we perceive reality as it really is.