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Almost nobody gets the point:
We (humans) will never be able to grab the very moment this particular
thing will get outta hands ...
It will -IN ANY CASE- be either too soon or too late ... for some.
Mr. Einstein and many others thought nuclear technology would be
necessary to beat the nazis, so ending WWII ... and then there was the
"Cold War" (whit its
milllions and millions of "victims") ... and Mr. Oppenheimer
reminded himself the (in)famous Hindu quote:
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds".
Will we (humans) ever find the "convenient moment" to do ...
the right thing?
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P.S.
The ancient
"mythological ethnologies" are considered obsolete by us
"moderns" because they interpret the world in a way that is animistic
and therefore "primitive", anti-scientific ... even
"incomplete".
"Science as
religion" is often cited in "literary salons" as an improbable
paradox to joke about ... I wouldn't do it! ...
Science today has
effectively become a religion, with its priests and its army and even its ...
secret police.
Science and the relative
"unconscious" force that makes it "acquit" its own
"pontificating victims" is -in a (partially) unconscious way-
preparing to become the very next ... "Holy Inquisition".
The ancient
"mythological ethnologies", unlike us moderns, were indeed
"primitive", yet they had grasped the ULTIMATE ESSENCE of the
knowledge that our new "priests" of Science lack:
What for one of them (S.
Wolfran) with a rare visionary ability defined with the term
"Computational Irreducibility" and which the ancient
"mythological wisdoms" have since the beginning ENGLOBATED: the
"cyclical" essence of the world that surrounds us and that it must be
safeguarded and protected as the most precious of goods.
The perennial search for
something "resolutive" can only lead a society conceived in this way
to self-destruction ...
In the ethnic mythologies
of the remote past it was present in a vital core, which for them was to
provide an explanation of reality and of the way already accomplished and
therefore in its deepest form ... eco-sustainable.
While for us this is just
one word among many others and like the others it can come and go according to
fashions.
Every step that involved
the change of traditions had to be explored with caution to evaluate the consequences
not only for individuals, but also for the community and above all for the
whole of Nature (today we would say for the ecosystem).
Don't take from Nature more
than what you need to live, so as not to upset the order of things more than
necessary: this is not primitive "animism" at all ...
This is a HIGHLY ADVANCED
AND SOPHISTICATED "vision" OF NATURAL REALITY ... even at a
cosmological level!!!
Something that has taken
our "Scientific" society thousands of years to figure out... but have
we really figured it out? ...
The "Computational
Irreducibility" is telling us not to despise what - of the
"Ancients" - we have not yet understood ... so well.
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("Computational
Irreducibility") ... What's that?
I'm not a mathematician, so
I don't even dare to explain it.
I can tell you how I
interpret its meaning form a layperson's point of view:
The Science we are used to
provides us with all the things we are RAVENOUS about today thanks to the
"scientific method", i.e.: the science as we know it as laypersons
...
Science is based on
mathematics and on "assumptions", in turn mathematics is also based
on "axioms", etc. All these "big words" can be translated -
trivialized, if you want - in a synthetic way with the sentence:
"what we don't know
... we take for granted".
This is how Science
proceeds: by CHEATING!
it's like when - playing
solitaire - you ... peek (poke) at the cards.
In the sciences, the most
widespread "trick" is to hazard predictions based on
"APPROXIMATED" but often also (somehow even unawarely) arbitrary
calculations ...
According to the principle
of "Computational irreducibility", at least to some extent ...
everything ends up being ARBITRARY ... SOONER OR LATER !!!
In what sense? ...
In the final analysis, it
is NEVER POSSIBLE TO OBTAIN RELIABLE RESULTS BY TAKING "SHORTCUTS"
and this is because it is NEVER POSSIBLE TO (deep fully) KNOW WHERE THE
"ESSENTIAL" sub-PROCESSES are to be found OF ANY ONE of the main
PROCESS THAT ARE BEING STUDIED.
Science actually doesn't
just "approximate" ... but ends up -more or less involuntarily- by
DISTORT its results by "arbitrarily assuming" that part of what is
being studied is irrelevant ...
It's like taking a road
full of detours too fast to the point of missing a "turn" that could
take us somewhere else altogether... and without even realizing it.
"Computational
irreducibility" is the typical error of those who are ... always in a
hurry to get there ... and instead will never arrive ... nowhere.
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