cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agoFor thousands of years the smartest people considered gods, spirits, "the little people" and the afterlife to be a reality. What's wrong with us modern people?message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareFor thousands of years the smartest people considered gods, spirits, "the little people" and the afterlife to be a reality. What's wrong with us modern people?cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareLmaydev@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoNo the sensible conclusion is that we have more information these days and can make different observations from that information.
minus-squarecameron_vale@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoSurely observation, ideally, acts independently from any information. To constrain observation that way might lead to a selective blindness.
minus-squareLvxferre@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoIt’s true but keep in mind that the other user is ignorant on the difference between “ignorance” and “dumbness”, as this comment shows. So he’ll likely distort what you said into “you think that people in the past were dumb?” like he did there.
No the sensible conclusion is that we have more information these days and can make different observations from that information.
Surely observation, ideally, acts independently from any information. To constrain observation that way might lead to a selective blindness.
It’s true but keep in mind that the other user is ignorant on the difference between “ignorance” and “dumbness”, as this comment shows. So he’ll likely distort what you said into “you think that people in the past were dumb?” like he did there.
You made a link. I’m touched.