We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know (2016)

Re:We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know (2016) by kleer001 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:04PM (#20576124)

Color me stupid, and maybe this isn't even in my wheel-house (or near my hobby horse), but isn't it important to find out what is demonstrably true?

What good is a theory (or "theory") if it doesn't bang up against reality and have the potential to die and be forgotten? Is there some clade of humans that just regurgitate theory back and forth to each other? Or is this entertainment?

I'm probably missing something. I'm probably thinking at the wrong level of analysis. I'm lost. Help?

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Re:We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know (2016) by marcosdumay on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:30PM (#20577438)

> Is there some clade of humans that just regurgitate theory back and forth to each other?

Oh, there are many. Go through the department of any non-applied academic field, or just turn your TV on the news. (Although one can claim the later is entertainment.)

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Re:We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know (2016) by kleer001 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @02:18PM (#20586665)

AHHH! Yes, thank you. I knew it was familiar. I know it through my particular beef with some air-headed philosophers.

Now, not all philosophers... some of them ask very good questions and propose smart thought experiments which lead to positive change in the world.

Some of them, not so much. These talk in jargon filled circles, paint themselves into corners, shoot themselves in the feet, then drag down countless impressionable miserable children along with them into an empty revolution and drag down the collective unconscious retarding the good of civilization.

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