cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agoIn the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down130
arrow-up1-21arrow-down1message-squareIn the last 1000 years we have not advanced as a species. We are just as tribal, dogmatic and reactionary as we always were. Given that scientists are people too, will science save us?cameron_vale@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoYes but the change is not permanent. It dies with you. All you would need is for the change not to be passed on to the next generation and all that progress is lost. We currently spend decades passing on that knowledge to each child. If that ever stops, the progress disappears in one generation.
Yes but the change is not permanent. It dies with you.
All you would need is for the change not to be passed on to the next generation and all that progress is lost.
We currently spend decades passing on that knowledge to each child.
If that ever stops, the progress disappears in one generation.