Yeah but it isn’t the key central focus of the deal anymore then. It’s just a convenient accessory.

We can still observe and discuss methods for making observations.

Yes. Hypotheses. Ideas.

But the point of the scientific method is to get us high-quality ideas. How would that cure the derangement of an idea-centered perspective?.

Maybe if you removed the model-making part. Leave the primacy of observation and the utility of peer-review. Maybe.

There is also the assumption of the central importance of ideas, which is a rather deranged perspective when you think about it.

Don’t get me wrong, ideas have high utility, for memory and language and such, but still.

An idea is just a little thing, and any association between it and the rest of reality is purely contrived.

Instead of doctors we’d have AI controlled animatronics doing the deed.

Give it a thousand years, then it’s classical mythology. That’s free game. That’s where we got Mars, Saturn, Jupiter etc.

Popular scifi, written to appeal to the majority, for tv and movies, is actually only one special kind of scifi. And the majority isn’t known for its depth or taste.

I’m not saying that there aren’t exceptions, but ya, that’s how it is.

There’s a whole world of written scifi where the point is basically to show you something strange. Ideas so weird that scifi is the only way to convey them.

Here’s some free, online scifi by good authors. Your mind will be blown.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

https://qntm.org/structure

https://library.gift/fiction/9F6810564C853BD3EA7223E4AB1FA575

Is science fiction enough for talking about politics?

My fave is shrooms. Real friendly and powerful.

I have never done DMT. Apparently it’s like shrooms, a tryptamine. But that isn’t saying much I guess.

These days I meditate.

I’ve had some delightful times on LSD.

Also, it (and some other things) led me to meditation. And that’s real magic.

Dune. Mentats. Those guys did LSD, obviously. Thoughts acquire speed and clarity.

Well he did think different. That includes his thinking about medicine.

So there are pros and cons to thinking different.

mmm

Splitting the obedient underclass from the disobedient underclass.

Maybe it’s a staged event. The latest consensus-splitter / distraction.

Look how it has split us. Reddit deleting posts. Unironic discussion of guillotines.

Luigi is probably working for them. His job is to do all the “right” things, to further the preferred narrative and such. He’s a paid actor.

The real infidel will disappear quietly.