http://claude.betancourt.us/ted-talks-beyond-the-crisis-mindboggling-science-and-the-arrival-of-homo-evolutis/ Claude Betancourt's Personal Blog Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://claude.betancourt.us/ted-talks-beyond-the-crisis-mindboggling-science-and-the-arrival-of-homo-evolutis/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Harry Dale Huffman Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:11:30 +0000 http://claude.betancourt.us/?p=371#comment-874 Bottom line: Technology has not helped man to think better, and it won't make him function better than the "unenhanced" human body in any fundamental sense. In fact, "hard" science is in unrecognized crisis today, across all fields, and is falsely leaning on still-expanding technology. Scientists don't learn anymore, they just keep inventing new suppositions to cover new observations and thus keep their theories alive. That's what Mr. Enrique is selling here -- glib, glittery, empty suppositions that would stave off for yet another generation the internal pressures for self-correction of the current failing paradigm, whose effects we perceive all around us in vain, unending "debates", which the "authorities" and "experts" all refuse to learn from. What the future will bring is hard correction, not painless "rebooting". Man should know his limitations, and the fundamental source of all ethics: All of human science -- all human endeavor -- is only the reverse-engineering of prior design of the natural world (just as all learning is only remembrance, as Socrates famously taught). Read my blog for the new paradigm. Bottom line: Technology has not helped man to think better, and it won’t make him function better than the “unenhanced” human body in any fundamental sense. In fact, “hard” science is in unrecognized crisis today, across all fields, and is falsely leaning on still-expanding technology. Scientists don’t learn anymore, they just keep inventing new suppositions to cover new observations and thus keep their theories alive. That’s what Mr. Enrique is selling here — glib, glittery, empty suppositions that would stave off for yet another generation the internal pressures for self-correction of the current failing paradigm, whose effects we perceive all around us in vain, unending “debates”, which the “authorities” and “experts” all refuse to learn from. What the future will bring is hard correction, not painless “rebooting”. Man should know his limitations, and the fundamental source of all ethics: All of human science — all human endeavor — is only the reverse-engineering of prior design of the natural world (just as all learning is only remembrance, as Socrates famously taught). Read my blog for the new paradigm.

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