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RHWarrior  Posts: 770
Registered: 2009-9-30 18:42:12
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Humans aren't purely logical creatures.
What's why they readily eat up BS if it's emotionally satisfiying or mandated by the group they belong to.
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Understanding ones self/essence/spirit/soul does not fall with the purview of Science. By any measure, understanding ones self is vastly more important than understanding any marvel of science.
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_Enkidu_  Title: Zen Badger
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Registered: 2001-12-24 05:02:15
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Science is simply a way of knowing things, just like any other way you may come to know something. How you choose to know something about yourself greatly influences how valid what you know is. If you choose to "wing it" using intuition you can very easily be wrong. If you choose to experiment a little and test what you know, you have a much better chance of getting it right.
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But why bother to know anything?
Is the pursuit of knowledge by a creature destined for death, and a species destined for extinction logical?
Why do we bother?
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_Enkidu_ Title: Zen Badger
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In my case, because it's enjoyable. I like to know how things work.
I've been on the outpost long enough to know that many of you would disagree!
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Ashmaele  Title: Pastor of Muppets
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Registered: 2002-1-15 08:30:50
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Quality stuff Enkie.
But I have to ask, were you in prison between October 2009 and December 2011?
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NuEM Posts: 1,007
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Allstarslacker posted:
But why bother to know anything?
Is the pursuit of knowledge by a creature destined for death, and a species destined for extinction logical?
Why do we bother?
This is what The Matrix asked.
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
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How does one obtain moral knowledge?
Is there such a thing?
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I think gaining moral knowledge is a matter of understanding your feelings, how they relate to the feelings of others, and how your actions affect both your feelings and the feelings of others.
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NuEM Posts: 1,007
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Do you want others to feel as good as possible short, medium and long term? Figure this out and bam there you go, moral knowledge. However due to the complexity of the nature of the question it is practically impossible to find correct answers, so we go about using heuristics that may or may not get us good enough results.
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