| This was interesting. Who is the guy Dawkins is talking to?
One of the coolest things is thinking about how evolution affects human cognition. The optimist in me wants to believe that to a certain extent we have broken through our evolutionary roots and thus have theoretical understanding. However, it is very likely that our "theoretical knowledge" is just the miss use of our practical understanding and thus doomed to fail. The normative/noumenal world is illusory/unknowable. And understanding the phenomenal world and creating descriptive propositions are all we can hope for. But I'm fine with that!
"...all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |