It’s the sort of act that says “Yeah, we made this awe-inspiring thing, but we really owe it to thousands of of past generations. None of us can fully comprehend how we managed to do this, so let’s dedicate its highest floor to something transcendent, something that symbolizes the beautiful, impossible and absurd experiment that made it possible, our society”.
It feels like this is something you’re reading into it more than what people creating it necessarily thought. You can easily tell a bunch of other just-as-plausible stories about it that are not nearly as positive-sounding.
Well, not really, since the way they get talked about is essentially searching for a “better” definition or trying to make all definitions coincide.
Even more so, some of the terms allow for definitions but those definitions in themselves run into the same problem. For example, could you try to come up with one or multiple definitions for the meaning of “free will” ? In my experience it either leads to very boring ones (in which case the subject would be moot) or, more likely, to a definition that is just as problematic as ‘free will’ itself.
It feels like this is something you’re reading into it more than what people creating it necessarily thought. You can easily tell a bunch of other just-as-plausible stories about it that are not nearly as positive-sounding.
Well, not really, since the way they get talked about is essentially searching for a “better” definition or trying to make all definitions coincide.
Even more so, some of the terms allow for definitions but those definitions in themselves run into the same problem. For example, could you try to come up with one or multiple definitions for the meaning of “free will” ? In my experience it either leads to very boring ones (in which case the subject would be moot) or, more likely, to a definition that is just as problematic as ‘free will’ itself.
I’m having a hard time understanding how your comment is applicable to mine. AFAICT, definitions have little to do with my comment.