Indeed general relativity, with its almost trollish insistence that there is no distinction between acceleration and gravitation, depends on "radical copernicanism" (not only are we not the center of the universe, it has no center, and therefore everything is the center)
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And given that it isn't practically relevant to them in any way - they learned these "facts" like "The Solar System Has Nine Planets" as a purely cultural artifact, a sort of pre-religion - it's honestly not an unreasonable ask If it doesn't matter, leave people be
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If I see someone going "the solar system has nine planets" and I go all Neil DeGrasse Tyson and jump on them to humiliate them for their ignorance and show off my erudition I'm just being an asshole I'm not helping anyone and should shut up
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Hence the terrible flailing using a bent-cudgel version of a badly reflected "biology" that is comforting and certain, two things biology is not and never was.
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Yeah, that's absolutely on point. The experience of a world where understanding is always slipping through your fingers is, after all, discomfiting. I'm not happy about it either.
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I talked before about the episode of Jim Henson's Dinosaurs where Charlyne begins trying to prove the Earth is round rather than flat and the government charges her with heresy
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