How much of what you know to be true is simply an artifact of your limited perception?
I’ll give you the answer.
All of it.
You can't know anything to be true for sure.
There is no book, no oracle, no source we can refer to that will tell us whether what we believe in is absolutely true.
Therefore all our explanations of the world are conjectures. They are our best guesses as to what is true.
You can be Newton, and everyone thinks your mechanics are absolutely true for generations, and then comes Einstein who shows that you are in error.
That sounds a bit depressing at first, but it is not. Understanding better what we are and our place in the universe is incredibly powerful.
And while we can't every be sure that anything we know is100% true, we CAN know that we don't have a better explanation, so we use these best explanations we have to build rockets and AI until we create better explanations. Even our incorrect explanations contain some truth along with errors, and they are useful.
Just like Bitcoin, epistemology is deep and rewarding rabbit hole.
There is no book, no oracle, no source we can refer to that will tell us whether what we believe in is absolutely true.
Therefore all our explanations of the world are conjectures. They are our best guesses as to what is true.
You can be Newton, and everyone thinks your mechanics are absolutely true for generations, and then comes Einstein who shows that you are in error.
That sounds a bit depressing at first, but it is not. Understanding better what we are and our place in the universe is incredibly powerful.
And while we can't every be sure that anything we know is100% true, we CAN know that we don't have a better explanation, so we use these best explanations we have to build rockets and AI until we create better explanations. Even our incorrect explanations contain some truth along with errors, and they are useful.
Just like Bitcoin, epistemology is deep and rewarding rabbit hole.
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