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So it seems clear we live in an age of empiricism in today's world.
What I mean by that is science at its core is an empirical realm.
Ultimately, any experiment you're going to be doing if you're a scientist is done by a person,
a person looking through a microscope with their eyes, a person listening to wavelengths with their ears,
a person organizing all of this data and information through a very feeble and really completely arbitrary set of mental faculties that they have,
the hope being at the end of it that having done this science experiment with our senses will be just a little bit closer to knowing the way that things are in the universe.
The truth, right?
We think about the truth that way.
The truth is this objective thing out there,
exterior to human beings that we're trying to come into contact with, the way that things actually are.
For example,
if every human and every animal was eradicated from the planet tomorrow and no sentient being was even attempting to try to find out what the truth was,
it makes sense that in that universe, there'd still be a way that things are.
We're not around at that point to try to access it.
But that's the thing, even if we were around to try to access it, the chips are stacked against us.
We realize our senses are not the greatest tools you could ever have at trying to arrive at this truth that's out there.
It's the reason we use things like microscopes and telescopes in the first place to augment our senses and try to access this truth more accurately,