zenkat
SF native who loves software, science, music, nature, art, food … and everything else this amazing corner of the planet has to offer.
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@BioMan @lagrangeinterpolator There are a few things we have forgotten as a species. Our forgetting will prove disastrous.
The acquisition of knowledge is a *social* process. Truth does not exist is a vacuum. It is the outcome of social processes.
Our default mental and social processes do not automatically produce objective truth. Far from it, in fact. Our default is mob consensus.
Our current success rests upon the advancements of The Enlightenment, which developed social processes (like the Scientific Method) which tend, over the long run, to create local knowledge that approaches objective truth.