Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to about this one. I'm really almost kind of gloating inside because I'm really going to enjoy talking about this.

I've spent a lot of time in my life researching the foundations of rationality and the foundations of human knowledge.

This is kind of been a pet project of mind for years now, for years.

And it's much to say, in fact, I'm probably going to write a book about this at some point. I've already started outlining a book about the limits of rationality and the limits of certain schools of thought that are like the scientific, the materialistic ways of

thinking, the physicalistic ways of thinking that are very, very common in today's society in the West.

So, right now, we live in what spiral dynamics calls stage orange.

That's kind of where American culture and Western culture in general

in first world countries is at.

What this means is rationalism,

scientism, scientism, and the materialistic frame of mind.

The success of science has made us blind

to the limits of science, because in the last 500 years, we've developed many theories and ideas

that have been well tested now

and have given us kind of mastery technologically speaking over

you know the physical plane and that's all well and good there's nothing wrong with

science science is great and it's useful and I love it and I love to study science and I've in fact spent years of my life studying science. I enjoy science.

But there are limits to science which most rational people do not understand and even hardcore scientists do not understand.

Because science is a framework and what scientists really hate to hear is that science is a framework.

Now if you're a really high quality scientist actually you recognize this and you've actually studied this you've actually become conscious of the framework that science is and you're very modest with the claims that you make as a scientist.

But this is not most scientists. Most scientists are actually quite arrogant in the claims they make and the claims they think science is able to make about reality.

And this gets them into trouble.

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