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RE: Is 'Moral Enhancement Technology' a Solution to Change Behavior?
Firefly. The great and long lamented series plot revolved around this exact technology backfiring, causing the entire population of a planet to either suicide or become essentially rabid monsters.
The hubris of people and scientists (who are just people in lab coats) with a little knowledge that conceitedly think they know the 'truth' is daily revealed to be merely unfounded ignorance as science constantly evolves as new information is developed.
Plato famously said, "I know one thing: that I know nothing." It is the acknowledgement of ignorance that creates the very possibility of learning. The assumption that one knows the truth ends the possibility of learning the truth.
Thanks for this post!
Ah yeah, good plot. Let's make everyone docile an peaceful... not pursuing aggressive actions... to the point where they aren't pursuing anything, not even eating. Winning! LOL.
"The truth" can be known about one thing, i.e. a truth. "The truth" itself as a thing we use to reference reality/existence, is indeed not something we will have knowledge of, because we can't know all of 'it'. There is always more unknown to discover and bring into the known. Thanks for the feedback.