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It's hard to have a conversation when common terms are deliberately misconstrued. Obviously & colloquially, when someone says "how would the world change if hum
by ctdonath 12y ago
It's hard to have a conversation when common terms are deliberately misconstrued. Obviously & colloquially, when someone says "how would the world change if humans were given information X" we're discussing social human behavior, not (say) natural geologic change.
- rbrogan 12y agoThat is not obvious (no offense). When I think of "the world", I also think about things beyond "social human behavior". For instance, you could ask how contact with alien life could affect how we use this planet Earth (e.g. usage of natural resources, pollution, etc.). Conceivably, it could also change how we think about (non-human) life on this planet. One can talk about "the world" and talk about humans without necessarily being anthropocentric.