Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts said Richard Feynman. Feynman had a Nobel prize in physics. He was a remarquable educator: his lecture notes are still popular. He foresaw nanotechnology and quantum computing. He is credited with identifying the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger... Read more
In the age of pseudo scientific conspiracy theorists trying to educate the world on youtube – maybe some authority is a good thing? Read this for another side of the arguement. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00872-w
The rise and fall of scientific authority — and how to bring it back
“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Lol. btw… “Post-structuralism and post-modernism, by their slippery relativism, have destroyed the concept of philosophy. No one cares about philosophers”
Interesting idea. I found the article this made me think of… “Stephen Hawking declared philosophy “dead”. Richard Dawkins styles himself a philosopher of religion despite an almost complete disregard for the field itself as if his status as a scientist confers on him a superior knowledge. Whether these opinions represent the majority, the problem is real. Scientists need to know why they need philosophy”
Hard to argue with this. But I don’t think God or some alien had to think something like a Universe up in order for it to exist. One thing is for sure though, all things AND ideas will perish, leaving no-thing and no-idea.
Like the idea but some things were just things before anyone thought of them, such as planets and atoms. Other things may not have been real things, but they are universal ideas that seem to exist independently of our cultures and social norms…
“there are the ideas that do not distinguish themselves by what can be seen or heard, but by what can be felt. Their names are truth, justice, faith, hope, love, they do not seek to be known but to be felt.”
Adding this link to another idea on ideamill. Lots of good comments, especially relating to the idea of nobody having original ideas anymore. Thing is, surely all ideas were original at one point?
All of history has led you to read this idea - IdeaMill
More wisdom from Dyson here
AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY! ““If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children.”
…. agreed, but this also includes the ignorance of experts…
In the age of pseudo scientific conspiracy theorists trying to educate the world on youtube – maybe some authority is a good thing? Read this for another side of the arguement. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00872-w
“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Lol. btw… “Post-structuralism and post-modernism, by their slippery relativism, have destroyed the concept of philosophy. No one cares about philosophers”
Interesting idea. I found the article this made me think of… “Stephen Hawking declared philosophy “dead”. Richard Dawkins styles himself a philosopher of religion despite an almost complete disregard for the field itself as if his status as a scientist confers on him a superior knowledge. Whether these opinions represent the majority, the problem is real. Scientists need to know why they need philosophy”
Found a video of this idea here https://youtu.be/IL6I0aHQEO8
Hard to argue with this. But I don’t think God or some alien had to think something like a Universe up in order for it to exist. One thing is for sure though, all things AND ideas will perish, leaving no-thing and no-idea.
Like the idea but some things were just things before anyone thought of them, such as planets and atoms. Other things may not have been real things, but they are universal ideas that seem to exist independently of our cultures and social norms…
“there are the ideas that do not distinguish themselves by what can be seen or heard, but by what can be felt. Their names are truth, justice, faith, hope, love, they do not seek to be known but to be felt.”
Adding this link to another idea on ideamill. Lots of good comments, especially relating to the idea of nobody having original ideas anymore. Thing is, surely all ideas were original at one point?
Looks like we are gonna need these guys to outsmart the AI that overpowers us.
Bad idea – “We can say they were statistically and significantly smarter than control mice.”
Gulp! scientists “create” mice….