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We are so full of ourselves we called ourselves Homo sapiens, wise man, but wise we don't seem to be. I recently faced this feeling of overconfidence in knowle
by neuralkoi 4mo ago
We are so full of ourselves we called ourselves Homo sapiens, wise man, but wise we don't seem to be.
I recently faced this feeling of overconfidence in knowledge trying to think about how seasons work or why rainbows have a curved or arcing shape.
You might think seasons are caused by the tilt of the earth, but why? Exercise left for the reader.
- throwawaysoxjje 4mo agoSame reason you can look at a sunset but not the noonday sun
- ErroneousBosh 4mo ago> We are so full of ourselves we called ourselves Homo sapiens, wise man, but wise we don't seem to be. Terry Pratchett said that a better name for humans would be Pan narrans, "Story-telling Chimpanzee".
- Shorel 4mo agoAnd by saying that, and a some other things, he himself can be called one of the few homo sapiens.