Let's say we reset everything today, wipe out everyone's memory. God will be forgotten, science will still exist. People will figure out science sooner or later.
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Science laws won't cease to exist, but if you wipe out everyone's memory, their knowledge of that science will cease to exist - so they'll have to figure it out from zero - and there's no guarantee that there won't be another placeholder in a sense (i.e. what religions have been historically) for what's yet to understand.
Edit: maybe it's more accurate to say science laws would cease to exist, but won't cease to work; they would cease to exist in a formulated way (in that hypothetical memory loss) since they were put together by humans.
I think the intent is more “Scientific discoveries could be rediscovered, your One True Religion wouldn’t be.”
Yeah, in this sense I agree. I'm overanalyzing again.
If I'm being honest, I think people will figure out god too. All it is is a question.
"Did someone do all this?"
It's a reasonable question. Easy to ask, hard to answer. Attempt to identify this variable "someone", and people will eventually land on some kind of god.
I mean you can answer that today lmao.
Exactly my point! I was a staunch atheist in childhood, mostly out of rebellion against Christianity. I'm something else now because I asked the question in sincerity. I'm still definitely not a Christian, mind you. But man, the void is cool to ponder about.
In a similar boat, I guess I would be considered a pantheist by definition.
Staunch atheist growing up, asked myself a similar question. My religious views don't necessarily change my view of how the world comes to be, or promises anything like eternal salvation; just an acknowledgement that all of this comes from something and by definition you could consider that something to be god.
Any extrapolations ontop of that would have to be considered faith or conjecture.
In fact I think most people would find it somewhat depressing to come to a similar conclusion initially, but the questions that come from this pondering have really helped me find a harmony with the universe and I'm appreciative of that
Hey, welcome to the club! Pantheism has helped me find some deceptively obvious truths in life. "As above, so below" being a big one. Meshes remarkably well with science, and if anything it rekindled my enjoyment of science and reality in general. It's the healthiest relationship I've ever had with "religion".
Yes, but the point is that every time god is "rediscovered", the form of that god changes as does the scripture surrounding that new religion.
Science, for the most part, wouldn't diverge from our current understanding of it, because it is ultimately our understanding of the world and its fuctions.
Different form, same essential content.
God will always exist before science, it is necessary to rationalize existence to have any hope of living long enough to develop science.
If there's no meaning to what you're doing, there's no point in dealing with suffering. Only through extreme alienation from suffering can you start to have a non divine world view.
Its probably for the best.
If humans are able to get to another planet with life on it we would probably do horrific unspeakable things to the aliens.
You mean civilize and liberate the aliens from their barbarism? /s
*Aliens pulling out literal fireswords*
"Okay."
Dispensing freedom you mean.
I feel like I would treat my Togruta wife very well ;-;
Real talk tho, humans will eventually reach the stars, being negative/nihilist about it and saying it's better if it doesn't happen is dangerous because people like Elon/Donald will definitely do horrible things if people with remorse and morals aren't involved/ already established there / the one's initiating
Not saying you're nihilist, but I go to Uni in SF and everyone is so anti-imperialism that they think any form of colonization (even on a dead planet like Mars) is bad and it's pretty grating.
Elon should not be the one who decides how the land/living conditions are set up
It's not nihilist to recognize historical precedent combined with current human conditions and come to a logical prediction.
I wouldn't have any problem with a completely dead planet being colonized by humanity but I absolutely do not trust humanity as a whole when it comes to a planet with life on it we don't even respect our own species much less other ones history has shown this over and over again.
even if it is an inevitability doesn't mean that it is positive just because it was inevitable that nuclear weapons got invented doesn't mean that It's a good idea for us to have that technology I would rather nukes not exist.
The fact is that any manned vehicle capable of interplanetary travel is by the nature of the energies involved, also a weapon of mass destruction. A spaceship is a weapon in the same way a car can be a weapon.
So either you massively restrict access to this technology, or you create a system of surveillance and defense that is so pervasive and effective that it makes 1984 look benign, OR you just say fuck everyone else and use that weapon to remove yourself from range of everybody else's weapons.
Proliferation is an existential problem for anyone in range.
The usefulness of a fusion engine as a weapon is directly correlated to its efficiency.
It doesn't really matter what kind of engine it is if it's going fast enough.
Anything with enough mass and acceleration to move a human being from planet to planet in a reasonable timeframe has the kinetic energy required to wipe out a city. Once you start reaching relativistic speeds, you can take out entire planets by simply not slowing down on approach.
Although you are correct, this destroys the engine.
A good, efficient fusion engine just needs to point the exhaust end towards the enemy and the hyper-accelerated particles will punch a hole through the target for you. And then you point at the next target, etc. etc.
Also, it's a butchered quote from Larry Niven's Known Space books, referred to as the "Kzinti Lesson" - because the Kzinti thought humanity was unarmed and helpless until they discovered that humans are really good at improvising weapons.
Yup! Totally plausible - just more expensive and less repeatable. And harder to use against moving targets.
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