It's true, given enough time, we won't ask questions anymore. Every abstract concept and moral belief will be simply data. "Meaning" will stop making sense. T

It's true, given enough time, we won't ask questions anymore. Every abstract concept and moral belief will be simply data. "Meaning" will stop making sense. There will only be science and those who do science. Some poor fool might ask every once and a while "why are we doing this science anyway?" and they will be swiftly silenced. We will of course force children away from their natural wonder, as nothing good could come from something like that. There are plenty of other things to fill the kids brain with anyway. There will only be data. Meaninglessly complete and perfect data. A young would-be Kurt will come along and ask "is it possible this is really complete? all our data? how might we verify it?" He too, would need to be silenced. One night your wife will sob "but why are you being like this?" But you know this is a silly thing to ask: you are just what your atoms are, we can measure them perfectly you know. What other "why" does she want? Things like "value" and "human" and "well being" aren't important concepts anyway. If it can't be resolved down to data, lets just let the market and the state decide. It's not like we are going to be able to bring up some obsolete, non-falsifiable ideas in order to defend ourselves! It doesn't matter much anyway, its not science. And when you die you will know that your whole life really meant nothing but at best a small donation to the science. Because what value could subjective experience really have outside of, you know, doing science. But you are still happy, you did Science. But don't ask why you are happy! And the great drama of science vs. philosophy will have ended. There was always going to be a winner after all! It was totally a battle, not a dichotomy. And the battle is over. \s