(March 22, 2022 at 7:11 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(March 22, 2022 at 7:04 pm)Belacqua Wrote: #2 is certainly closer to the truth.
I'd add a little bit of positivity, though, in that fairly often, despite the war, politics, and business, we get genuine benefits. Like improved dentistry. Also I like the Internet really well.
So whence lies the dividing line in science between objectivity and bias?
I say a more honest statement would be, "Science strives to be objective. And has made significant progress in doing so. Some biases still plague science and make it less objective than it could be. But still, it's remarkably objective."
The human mind is inherently limited, with built-in biases. Many of these are not like homophobia, which can be educated away. This is more like the inability of rats to comprehend prime numbers. Their minds just don't go that far.
We are animals who evolved a certain way, and we see the world in that way.