orthonormal comments on The conscious tape - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 19 September 2010 04:40:35PM 2 points [-]

Our amazement.— It is a profound and fundamental good fortune that scientific discoveries stand up under examination and furnish the basis, again and again, for further discoveries. After all, this could be otherwise. Indeed, we are so convinced of the uncertainty and fantasies of our judgments and of the eternal change of all human laws and concepts that we are really amazed how well the results of science stand up.

  • Nietzsche, The Gay Science I.46

(NB: in this passage, "we" signifies modern atheists, not people in general.)