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When you understand it you call it "science" or "technology". When you don't understand it you call it "religion" or "ritual". These are smart people. Just lik
by swayvil 2y ago
When you understand it you call it "science" or "technology". When you don't understand it you call it "religion" or "ritual".
These are smart people. Just like us. Time is money for them just like it is for us. They probably had a very good, practical reason to do this "ritual". As surely as tapping keyboards.
- dudeinjapan 2y agoIncorrect. "Science" is "science" because it works in a reproducible fashion--same applies to "technology", "modern medicine", etc. We don't have to fully grok a how a medicine works (example: SSRI anti-depressants) understand basically that it does work. We do need a double-blind study however. "Rituals" need not have any efficacy at all. Surely burning a stick smeared in kangaroo fat does nothing to cure ailments. It's entirely possible the only reason is "this is what our tribe has always done." Certainly rituals create tribe cohesion and can have a placebo effect, but it is a fallacy to equate these things to science-based medicine. "Tapping keyboards" is not a "ritual"--we are not typing to appease the great silicon gods--we are doing it as means of communication and performing economically valuable work. Rituals which do seem to work, e.g. plant-based medicine, can be used as an "intuition pump" for scientific study. The fact that a plant has been used for thousands of years is a good sign that it may have some effect, but that effect still needs to be verified.
- dkarl 2y agoI think you're assuming they're a lot smarter than us, not "just like us."
- swayvil 2y agoNot smarter, just different. People in Germany speak German. I can't speak German. That doesn't make them smarter.