RE: Separation of Science and State
November 17, 2020 at 10:17 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2020 at 10:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Distinguished for a specific regimentation rather than for any act or aim. Doing coke and acid then writing down what happens isn't just the same as measuring and logging environmental data, a scientific experiment, it's been done.
Shamans do it, and religions do it too, broadly - but...more often than not, without the benefits that the specific regimentation confer. Science, in this sense, is a word that refers to the way that we got better at doing what we've always done, what has always informed us. We can credibly assume that the supernatural beliefs of a given primitive were very much rooted in some completely factual observation of the world around them, and in a long tradition of experimentation with it's constituent (asserted or actual) parts.
Shamans do it, and religions do it too, broadly - but...more often than not, without the benefits that the specific regimentation confer. Science, in this sense, is a word that refers to the way that we got better at doing what we've always done, what has always informed us. We can credibly assume that the supernatural beliefs of a given primitive were very much rooted in some completely factual observation of the world around them, and in a long tradition of experimentation with it's constituent (asserted or actual) parts.
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