• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    7 hours ago

    I dunno, I’d say people do things like coke, cheat, etc, because of beliefs.

    They have a belief that “it doesn’t matter”.

    But yea, our beliefs, our paradigms, are what help us be better people to each other.

    Hell, science is founded on the belief that the universe is rational, that “God does not play dice with the universe”.

    Studying quantum mechanics makes me wonder otherwise. Nothing about it is rational. Not to say I don’t operate on a day-to-day basis that the underlying framework makes sense, what other choice do we have?

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      4 hours ago

      If we manage to understand pretty much everything about the universe above the quantum level, I’d consider that a great success for some bipedal primates on the 3rd rock from the Sun, looool. 😁