# Edited 2021-11-13 - 18:57 # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # There is little difference between human and machine [[Programming|programming]] Say, Bob start a [[Conversation|conversation]] with Alice about ecology, Bob will slowly program Alice into his thinking. Alice will be more or less programmed according to how much her [[Skepticism|skepticism]] and [[Rationalism|critical thinking]] is developed. In other words, an ignorant will believe whatever comes out of people mouths and thus become programmed, become a copy of the aggregate of the [[Information|information]] shared by society.