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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Are we condemned to repeat history?

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Philosopher George Santayana said that 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' If that’s true, then can an extensive understanding of past events help human civilization avoid future catastrophes? In this episode of Stuff to Blow

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wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.

1:44.6

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam and I'm Christian Sager.

1:48.2

You know, Christian, it seems that we should be able to look at where we've been in the past

1:55.8

and therefore extrapolate, predict, even simulate where we're going in the future, right?

2:01.8

It does. It does seem that way and I think that that maybe is a product of like the last century of our

2:10.0

scientific thinking. Does that make sense? Yeah, well, I mean, there's definitely one line in

2:15.3

particular that we're often referring to and generally misquoting, I think, a lot of the time.

2:21.6

And that comes from a philosopher, George Santeyana, who said, quote, those who cannot remember the past

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