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If this is what we’re meant to trust, you might ask what is so wrong with God. We are [[The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning - Book Review|pattern-seeking machines]]. It’s not like we take the data as we find them, coolly fashioning objective axioms from them, carving nature at its joints: we bring our idiosyncratic prisms and pre-existing cognitive structures to the task —our own “hot takes” — and wantonly create patterns to support our pre-existing convictions. | If this is what we’re meant to trust, you might ask what is so wrong with God. We are [[The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning - Book Review|pattern-seeking machines]]. It’s not like we take the data as we find them, coolly fashioning objective axioms from them, carving nature at its joints: we bring our idiosyncratic prisms and pre-existing cognitive structures to the task —our own “hot takes” — and wantonly create patterns to support our pre-existing convictions. | ||
===Falsifications die=== | ===[[Falsifications die]]=== | ||
This is not a criticism as much as a piece of resignation: an observation. ''This'' is the doom our incarcerate race endures. | This is not a criticism as much as a piece of resignation: an observation. ''This'' is the doom our incarcerate race endures. |