The 'Philosophy' of your 'Politics'?Posted By John Hopkins |
Probably the certainty that there is no certainty. It's not something you can base action on, because in order to do something you have to make a decision as to how things are, how often A + B = C so that the path to C can get its own interstate, etc.,
Physically, a lot of things can be determined. In human nature/psychology, every time someone claims to have mapped this or that behavior back to a root cause I'm skeptical. Every time we get a news report that's nothing more than exposition on the results of an opinion poll I want to throw something, because it's pure chance, and you could conduct another which by pure chance would flatly contradict the first.
Frankly I think we let the glimmer of high-tech fool us into considering our species advanced. But if there's anything to evolutionary theory, the fact is we haven't been around all that long, and this consciousness business may need a lot more time in the oven...
Physically, a lot of things can be determined. In human nature/psychology, every time someone claims to have mapped this or that behavior back to a root cause I'm skeptical. Every time we get a news report that's nothing more than exposition on the results of an opinion poll I want to throw something, because it's pure chance, and you could conduct another which by pure chance would flatly contradict the first.
Frankly I think we let the glimmer of high-tech fool us into considering our species advanced. But if there's anything to evolutionary theory, the fact is we haven't been around all that long, and this consciousness business may need a lot more time in the oven...