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#167- Asimov's Foundation Part 2

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Why Science Doesn't Provide Morality

When you see the promises of science and technology not be fulfilled for 50 years, then you start to question it. Science does not provide anything of morality because as part of its method, it abstracts from it. And so scientific progress as a moral good makes no sense. It's like saying sleeping green ideas as amoral good. It's nonsense. You're thinking of things in the wrong way. The problem really does become clear when you start thinking, I'm going to keep banging on it. For causes, science doesn't deal with the most important cause. Why? It's methodological. You do it. We haven't gotten Star Trek. We've gotten TPS reports. Yeah

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