Matthew Sheffield on Nostr: Besides piling up all kinds of newfangled things, expansions in knowledge also can ...

Besides piling up all kinds of newfangled things, expansions in knowledge also can liberate people from social prejudices.

For centuries, women and other ethnic groups were not fully human. Same-sex attraction & trans people weren't real.

These bigotries are the product of what's often called the "problem of other minds."

Because cognition is inherently private, & language is an only a very partial extrusion of thought, we can't know for sure that other minds are real. https://plus.flux.community/p/renee-good-and-the-problem-of-other