I don’t know about you, but I’m becoming heartily sick of being told the obvious nonsense that “myths” are just as valid an approach to the truth as science, just different. No they aren’t. If there were a better way of getting to the truth, science would adopt it.
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Replying to @RichardDawkins
Not better. And I think we need to really be clear on the utility. Does myth tell us anything about the real world? Orbital mechanics and such? Of course not. Might they have something to say when it comes to human meaning? Maybe. Don't be so quick to discard.
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Replying to @RhettRothberg @RichardDawkins
This is the vital difference. We can be deeply moved by art in the form of poetry or epic narratives w/out claiming them to be true. Scientists have no lesser an appreciation for these than anyone else. Blurring the distinction between 'meaningful' & 'true' is a problem.
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A lot of scientists (Dawkins eg, the Jordan Peterson of a different crowd) have a hugely lesser appreciation. It's evident in this reductive quote he's a sophist when it comes to grasping the significance of narrative in terms of what is known now and can be known scientifically.
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No, I don't think so. Have a look at Unweaving the Rainbow. Don't know what the last sentence means.
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Ok, I haven't read that, but this quote is terrible, and I see it everyday from pedantry, clearly expressed in that angle of Peterson criticism. It's shallow.
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I think its very important. We absolutely do not need to disregard either the potential of art to move us or the importance of narratives to our species to separate them from truth. This is highly counterintuitive to us as a story-telling species but doing so is how we advanced.
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Yeah, co-sign, just tweeted, I was reflexively responding to Dawkins on an image and the groups who were retweeting it. It's a fair statement.
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Yay! Nuance on Twitter. Excellent.
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