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I Myself Am A Scientismist | Slate Star Codex

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I. “Science can tell you about rocks and molecules and stars. But what kind of science can tell you about the deepest recesses of the human soul?” I hear this a lot, and I want to answe…

I. “Science can tell you about rocks and molecules and stars. But what kind of science can tell you about the deepest recesses of the human soul?” I hear this a lot, and I want to answer “Psychology! It’s this whole science that totally exists and is all about that!” But then they would just change “deepest recesses of the human soul” to “how to be a good person”, or “whether life has meaning” or whatever. Of course, there are sciences that bear on these questions. For example, biology can tell us a lot about the evolutionary origins of our moral intuitions, which sounds like the sort of…

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