Carlos Orsi

Most people know or have access to the information that science has disproved astrology.

But most of them have a personal experience with astrology that seems very convincing on an emotional level.

All this today on Something You Should Know.

Well, nowadays artificial intelligence can do otoscopes because there are certain sets of rules and even stock phrases that go into otoscopes.

They can really be easily combined.

That's something that scientific tests have done.

They created random otoscopes from stock phrases and people really can't distinguish them from the real thing.

Well, astrology is the idea that the position of the stars and planets in certain key moments, perhaps when you were born or when you open a business or when you meet the person you perhaps believe you are in love with, that this configuration of the sky says something important about the event, about the person who was born, about the relationship that is starting, about the business that is happening.

that is beginning and that following a set of rules that was sort of codified some 2000 years ago by a guy called Claudius Ptolemy.

You can say something about that moment, the relationship, the person, about its future, about its characteristics and about the main events that will happen to it in the future.

Well, it starts some 3,000 years ago in Babylon and Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, really, when people were very, very anxious about the future, as they are today.

And at that time, they were very attentive.

The priests of the time, they were very attentive to omens, things that happened, and everything had a meaning.

Everything...

was a message from the gods.

And there were a whole family of omens that were called the sky omens.

It included the shape of clouds, the flocks of birds, thunderstorms, and planets and stars.

Back then, people didn't really distinguish between meteorology and astronomy.

And they started compiling things that they saw in the sky and trying to correlate them to things that happened in the real world.

And in time, and we really don't know how this process happened, two things happened.