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#455 - Iain McGilchrist - The Wisdom Of Intuition
Modern Wisdom
Technology Is No More Nor Less Than the Extension of Human Control
Technology is no more nor less than the extension of human control. I don't notice us getting wiser. In fact, i'd be prepared to say that this is probably the least wise civilization of which we have any record. How would you define wisdom? If you don't know them when you see them, a definition is not going to help you. We think that one of these two can answer all our questions - and they can't,. And there are many different ways in which we come to know something about the world; science being just one of them. So in the middle of the book, look at the four ways that most people would come up with for saying what we get to
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