Sjouke Burry wrote:
On 11.01.21 5:11, Andrew W wrote:

Has to be based on reality though.

What is reality? Reality is an agreed upon collection of concepts by a human
collective about life on one particular planet based on current
understandings. It has changed many times in our history. Certain figures
like Galileo, Einstein, Newton and others changed it.

None of them changed reality.
They explained part of reality, letting people see some things
more clearly and accurately.


According to some popular theories reality can't be changed.
Relativity for example views "spacetime" as a multidimensional object
that is frozen. It doesnt change. When you look at a graph showing
the position over time of a marble in a u-shaped track does the graph
change? No. Spacetime is like that, suggests relativity.
If that is true then the memories you think you have of what happened
yesterday are total illusion. There is no "you" in +1 sec or -1 sec.
Oh well. Maybe there's something wrong with the theory.
Scientists admit they only predicted the existence of 3% of what
now seems to form the universe.
It's not good manners to based any claims on only vaguely understanding
3% of the dataset.

--
This, then, is the new illiteracy, the illiteracy of those who can read but
don't. [...] This new illiteracy is more pernicious than the old, because
unlike the old illiteracy it does not debar its victims from power and
influence, although like the old illiteracy it disqualifies them for it.
Those long-dead men and women who learned to read so that they might read
the Bible and John Bunyan would tell us that pride is the greatest of all
sins, the father of sin. And the victims of the new illiteracy are proud of
it. If you don't believe me, talk to them and see with what pride they
trumpet their utter ignorance of any book you care to name.
-- Gene Wolfe, "From a house on the Borderland", Horrorstruck (1987);
reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992).