We can easily know more about molecules and galaxies than about the doings of our next-door neighbour who lives a few inches away. That's not because of millennia of systematic self-denial and subjection to external, superior, eternal etc powers called god... I wouldn't get too carried away with that theme.Waechter418 wrote:Lamentably, the mind of Sapiens knows more about molecules and galaxies than about itself. Not because Self-knowledge is an impossible task – after all everyone spends a lifetime with/in his/her mind – but because of millennia of systematic self-denial and subjection to external, superior, eternal etc powers called god, fate and whatever else seems suitable to cover up a lack of Self-responsibility.
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that enable its user to control and to tame it.
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