#epistemology #knowledge # Edited 2021-11-24 - 07:38 # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Empiricism is obsolete outside planet earth [[We are optimized for survival not for understanding physics]] implies that, outside the environment we evolved in, we are a very weak and fragile system. Our [[Philosophy/Rationality/Intelligence|organic intelligence]] hardly handle systems that we didn’t evolved interacting with. **Empiricism says that you learn from received [[Information|information]] but outside earth, the [[Information|information]] we receive through our sensors made for planet earth, does not reflect the most useful reality.** Our [[Philosophy/Rationality/Intelligence|organic intelligence]] is unable to properly grasp non intuitive laws such as [[Relativity]] or [[Quantum physic]]. Empiricism is obsolete outside our environment with our current [[Philosophy/Rationality/Intelligence|organic intelligence]], we have to merge with machines.