Dr. Eric Haseltine
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And I, I love kind of BSing with him and, you know, kind of like you did in the dorm, you know, when you were a freshman, like, oh man, this thing's all connected, everything.
Yeah.
Well, I said, Marvin, are humans either collectively or individually capable of understanding nature in its entirety?
And he goes, of course not.
I'll give you an example.
My cat over there is the smartest cat I know or have even ever heard of.
It is a genius cat.
I'll never teach it French.
Right.
And it turns out that was wrong too, because we now know that some cats can understand about 400 words of a language.
But the point is that it's hubris to think that
at whatever level of intelligence we've achieved is enough to understand nature.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Well, it's like, you know, whales and dolphins and elephants and parrots are like way smarter than we ever thought they were.
Crows.
You know, a crow will remember your face for two decades and come after you if you pissed it off.
It's wild.
Right?