Re:Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil ...
by swayvil on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:38AM
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Consider the epistemology blob.
A bunch of axioms. A bunch of backstories justifying the axioms. A system for deriving good ideas (from axioms, observed phenomena and other ideas). A mountain of ideas derived from the axioms and observed phenomena, ideas derived from those ideas, and so on.
We call these epistemology blobs things like "scientific culture", "western culture", "Christian culture", "Inca culture" and so on.
Epistemology blobs appear to be invariably mutually antagonistic. They can't suffer each other to exist. They compete and self-preserve with a nigh biological zeal.
It's weird.
Charles Fort discusses it a bit in his "Book of the Damned".
A bunch of axioms. A bunch of backstories justifying the axioms. A system for deriving good ideas (from axioms, observed phenomena and other ideas). A mountain of ideas derived from the axioms and observed phenomena, ideas derived from those ideas, and so on.
We call these epistemology blobs things like "scientific culture", "western culture", "Christian culture", "Inca culture" and so on.
Epistemology blobs appear to be invariably mutually antagonistic. They can't suffer each other to exist. They compete and self-preserve with a nigh biological zeal.
It's weird.
Charles Fort discusses it a bit in his "Book of the Damned".