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> Could someone delusional also create a rocket ship? Or is there something special about programming that makes it compatible with delusional thinking? Newton
by Hasu 3y ago
> Could someone delusional also create a rocket ship? Or is there something special about programming that makes it compatible with delusional thinking?
Newton studied alchemy and Linus Pauling believed against all evidence that vitamin C cured cancer and basically everything else. Humans are very good at applying their (ir)rationality to certain subfields while abandoning it in others.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoI'll give you Pauling, but Newton studying alchemy in the 17th and 18th centuries would have been far from delusional when you consider "Robert Boyle pioneered the scientific method in chemical investigations"[0] around that time. According to the same Wikipedia article, it was only sometime between 1720-1740 when "alchemy" came to mean "attempts to transmute other materials into gold." Newton died in 1726. --- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy#Later_modern_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy#Later_modern_period
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoAlchemy was a pre-curser of Chemistry, and it is logical leap that this is not delusional, just 'early science'. BUT. Newton also studies Bible Numerology. Trying to find number patterns in the Bible. So maybe Newton also had his quirks. Maybe any mind that is exploring new ideas, will sometimes go down some blind alleys.
- DANmode 3y agoVitamin C cures cancer like ivermectin kills COVID-19 - it doesn't actually fix the bigger problem, but, if your body has been trashed so badly that you actually have medical need to have one of these put into your arm, the improvement in your immune system would be drastic.