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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      For decades, general relativity was popularly felt as a disastrous disconfirmation of the scientific worldview. Rationalism collapsed as a source of certainty, and never fully recovered. One could date the first crack of postmodernity to 100 years ago today.pic.twitter.com/ZoJFigDCCz

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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      It is now difficult to comprehend how completely and shockingly relativity shattered rationalism. For millennia, Euclid’s _Elements_ was *the* eternal source of absolute, unquestionable Truth about the fundamental nature of reality. Relativity showed it was just false.pic.twitter.com/x7N0RpeXS3

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Cultural historians take Newtonian physics as the foundation of the European Enlightenment. It provided a complete understanding of the material world, with perfect certainty. Modernity consists of extending that paradigm to all realms of meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment …pic.twitter.com/QYkw7dV9Hf

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      In the 1920s, intellectuals of all stripes tried to assimilate the disproof of Newton into some new version of modernity that would take relativity into account. This was entirely unsuccessful.pic.twitter.com/3cvH7nVCyI

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Meanwhile, popular faith in rationality, in modernity, in the world making sense, had already been profoundly shaken by the Great War, just ended. “Lights all askew in the heavens” was understood as more of the same: confirmation of cosmic senselessness. https://meaningness.com/systems-crisis-breakdown …pic.twitter.com/RSFHNMSceK

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      The 1919 announcement that SCIENTISTS PROVE WORLD MAKES NO SENSE was a Big Deal in a way we have forgotten. It was misappropriated as a totem of nebulosity in general. Anti-rationalists seized it as justification for the general relativity of all truth. https://www.britannica.com/science/relativity/Experimental-evidence-for-general-relativity …pic.twitter.com/N2r784Vi43

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      It is hard now to understand relativity as disproof of scientific rationality because the current scientistic-rationalist worldview is profoundly different in form, as well as content, from that of the early 20th century. Logical positivism to the rescue! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism …pic.twitter.com/IIzJXqTqmG

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Logical positivism attempted to rescue scientistic rationalism from two deep wounds: general relativity and the crisis of the foundations of mathematics. It succeeded in rethinking science in a way that made relativity acceptable. Unfortunately, that was overshadowed by events…

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Hardly anyone understood relativity; no one understood quantum. It said everything is inherently random, and statements could be true and false at the same time (Schrödinger’s cat). Again this was culturally appropriated as a general-purpose justification for irrational woo.pic.twitter.com/G6jdhFKzU4

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    10. Strong Reductionism‏ @StrongReduction 10 Nov 2019
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      I think no one quite 'understood' quantum when it arrived, and oversimplified statements such as 'being true and false at the same time' were (maybe still are) widespread. However, AFAIU, current tooling has a better idea of what quantum mechanics is, with much less confusion.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 10 Nov 2019
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      Yes; what I was doing here was tracing the cultural influence of the discoveries at the time, not explaining a current understanding of physics.

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