Matthew Sheffield on Nostr: The paradox of modernity is that each advance in knowledge also creates ignorance, in ...

The paradox of modernity is that each advance in knowledge also creates ignorance, in two major ways.

The first is that knowing more things also increases the number of known unknowns. Our models of reality are not reality itself. Scientific laws are descriptions of physical obligation, rather than the obligations themselves.

When we describe a thing via a model, the model itself becomes a source of doubt, because no model can explain obligations perfectly.