[Midnight Marauder]

[moomin]

Originally Posted by Midnight Marauder

We really don't actually know shit about it. We think we do, but we don't. We've yet to barely scratch the surface in pretty much all sciences.

That's not how I would put it. I mean, you cannot live in a highly advanced society, surrounded by the products of advanced technology every day, and credibly claim that we know nothing about the workings of the world.

We do, however, know significantly less than most people imagine. And by most people, I mean a whole shitload of goons whith PhD degrees in hard sciences that really should know better.

[Midnight Marauder]

Originally Posted by moomin

That's not how I would put it. I mean, you cannot live in a highly advanced society, surrounded by the products of advanced technology every day, and credibly claim that we know nothing about the workings of the world.

You know i was saying that compared to what's out there still to learn, we know nothing. Not that we know, nothing.

We do, however, know significantly less than most people imagine. And by most people, I mean a whole shitload of goons whith PhD degrees in hard sciences that really should know better.

Most people really means most people.

[walruskkkch]

Too much specialization and too much believing that knowledge in one highly specialized field confers knowledge in other fields just as specialized. And all along the average Joe has trouble with A) not knowing anything at all and B)Not being able to discern those who do have the specialized knowledge of a particular field from those whose knowledge of a specialized field might not be correct. For example giving Noam Chomsky the time of day on anything outside language theory and even then not being able to understand where he gets it wrong there.