Becoming Your Future Self with Dr. Agnes Callard
The DemystifySci Podcast
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Are They Right to Think They Know the Answer?
Many of the questions of science for humans are not necessarily questions that the average person would have an answer to in your opinion. So what I think is that questions become scientific questions when it becomes okay for the average person not to have ananswer to them. And, you know, as it becomes less necessary, it becomes more scientifically tractable because people are okay with not knowing the answer. But there's a certain way in which say the heroism of someone like Galileo, and this transition to seeing,you know, questions about the relative emotions of the earth and the sun ... It's stop mattering to us so we could approach it scientifically. We could be detached and objective.
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