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minus-squareEinarlinkfedilink49•7 months agoTBF, that’s actually a pretty profound insight. Most, if not all, of us take certain concepts for granted until someone points out that it’s more complex than we realise. Examples like Dark Energy & Matter, entropy, the placebo effect, the nature of mathematical objects, etc. are proof of this.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•7 months agowe also live in a world which has now known that premise and used it for 300 years, which makes it seem much more trivial than it was at the time.
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TBF, that’s actually a pretty profound insight.
Most, if not all, of us take certain concepts for granted until someone points out that it’s more complex than we realise. Examples like Dark Energy & Matter, entropy, the placebo effect, the nature of mathematical objects, etc. are proof of this.
we also live in a world which has now known that premise and used it for 300 years, which makes it seem much more trivial than it was at the time.