@sapinker It has to do with how brains represent sacredness. As a child, I was worried musical theory would destroy appreciation of music
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@sapinker Why do scientists fear literary intellectuals? Prefer robots? Ignorance?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker @RiotWhiski If anything, science's advances can help building even more interesting tales.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I'm a science-literate literary intellectual. I don't fear science. I fear ignorance.https://behindthehedge.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/ever-since-i-was-little/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker the idea that understanding is an enemy of beauty is just one more thing that holds us back as a species.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker They'd barely be 'intellectuals' if they fear science, literary or otherwise. Seems an unnecessarily generalized statementsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker this what happens when you have an incomplete education with scientific illiteracy. Ignorance and fear.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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science dissolves the magic. Awe of the infathomable can be as beautiful of an experience as understanding / problem solving.
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@sapinker More horrifyingly, why do they mix metaphors? Curb your tropes, people.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Science, religion, and magic were philosophical allies for millennia, and as popular culture has it -- breakin' up is hard to do.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour -WBThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker As someone who started as a "literary intellectual" I think this is likely to change as future generations embrace plasticityThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Mathematics. Besides William Empson, T. S Eliot & Wallace Stevens, Literary scholars tend2 think that science is all down to MathsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@Evolutionistrue because they weren't good at it in school?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Science is *hard*. Many heuristically replace it with something easy.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Literary works require romanticization, which necessitates fudging of reality. Many then overextend romanticization to truth.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker because they are mostly arts graduates who can't change a plugThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@olydbrown@martinarcher Because,on the whole,they prefer to take the long view→→ http://selenadreamy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-universe-is-not-euclidean_22.html …pic.twitter.com/kwX9cunEfp
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@sapinker consciousness and God will ever be beyond scienceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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