Potter: You Are Here

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We believe in electricity not because we know what it is (not really, not deep down), but because the scientific description of it explains a great deal of phenomena. Electricity fits into an overall story that is consistent with our belief in other phenomena – magnetism, say. We can build up a web of description, the strands of which are stronger for being a part of the whole web, that captures and holds more and more of what we call material reality. [p. 54]

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You believe there is something because you know ~~your~~ exist. You believe in your own ego. Science is a way of translating that individual experience of the world into a collective experience. We can personally validate a scientific description of reality by repeating an experiment, or by believing that experiments are repeatable, or, most apparently, by simply noting the changing nature of the world that technology creates around us. Technology is our evidence that science is getting somewhere. And by somewhere we mean our ability to create simulacra of reality that are the material world. [p.55]

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You believe there is something because you know you exist. You believe in your own ego. Science is a way of translating that individual experience of the world into a collective experience. We can personally validate a scientific description of reality by repeating an experiment, or by believing that experiments are repeatable, or, most apparently, by simply noting the changing nature of the world that technology creates around us. Technology is our evidence that science is getting somewhere. And by somewhere we mean our ability to create simulacra of reality that are the material world. [p.55]

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 We believe in electricity not because we know what it is (not really, not deep down), but because the scientific description of it explains a great deal of phenomena. Electricity fits into an overall story that is consistent with our belief in other phenomena – magnetism, say. We can build up a web of description, the strands of which are stronger for being a part of the whole web, that captures and holds more and more of what we call material reality. [p. 54]
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-You believe there is something because you know your exist. You believe in your own ego. Science is a way of translating that individual experience of the world into a collective experience. We can personally validate a scientific description of reality by repeating an experiment, or by believing that experiments are repeatable, or, most apparently, by simply noting the changing nature of the world that technology creates around us. Technology is our evidence that science is getting somewhere. And by somewhere we mean our ability to create simulacra of reality that are the material world. [p.55]
+You believe there is something because you know you exist. You believe in your own ego. Science is a way of translating that individual experience of the world into a collective experience. We can personally validate a scientific description of reality by repeating an experiment, or by believing that experiments are repeatable, or, most apparently, by simply noting the changing nature of the world that technology creates around us. Technology is our evidence that science is getting somewhere. And by somewhere we mean our ability to create simulacra of reality that are the material world. [p.55]
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