This is of course the best case scenario for having a bias. There are far worse -- and more common -- biases based on one's inherent prejudices such as political views. These apply an extra layer on almost everything you see, causing you to search for things that are not there.
Because we on;y had our experience to measure the universe, back then. As soon as we transcended our reliance on our own experience, our biased model of the universe (geocentric) ended and a more accurate model took its place.
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So, it was the invention of the telescope (or something like that) then? You've kicked the problem up a level. Why and how was the telescope invented? From 'experience'? It too didn't exist for most of human history: no-one knew how to make one. My guess is... (1/2)
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... someone made an 'assumption' ('Hmm... if I made a piece of glass like that raindrop...') which turned out to be OK. Infinitely many more bad ones are made all the time. Again, in each case, error-correction is all there is - to assumptions which *must* be made. (2/2)
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