Well, part of culture is just fashion essentially. Different customs and so on. But another part is knowledge.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
But is culture based on knowledge? Christians felt they knew God existed & unrepentant souls damned. Tiv knew something else.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well, many of the religious differences between cultures are due to fashion and memes and stuff, not genuine knowledge about the world.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Yes, and I'm not sure genuine knowledge ever forms the basis of more than a part of culture. So much more that's important to humans.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It doesn't, but reason/knowledge/science is a very important part in that it's the only part which allows us to make progress.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Yes but I'm not sure we build much culture around it but now I sense we're using the word a bit differently.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
Societies which value knowledge and science and reason do better but not much culture is built around it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
'We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science &technology, in which hardly any1 knows anything abt science & technology' Carl Sagan
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
We're not all scientists no, but we do have a culture which values science, as well as reason and evidence. (We could do better!)
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There's a consensus that 'reasonable' is a positive thing now & so the term has shifted meaning & is used more widely to mean fair & good.
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