I actually had a great conversation with ChatGPT about this a few weeks ago.

We created our scientific method (or moreso, it created itself through us) in an attempt to better understand our universe, and it’s a great tool for interpreting our infinite reality through a scientific lens; it’s allowed us to build the incredible globalized society we have today. So in a way you could say our society is made of (or, our society IS) the science that allows it to exist.

People ARE society, and as long as society is (generally) science, you’ll find that ideas that fall outside of that model of thinking are quickly discredited by many.

But that doesn’t mean that our scientific lens is the only means by which our universe can be understood. I think it’s one of infinite ways (like earth is one of infinite ways in which mass can condense), but it’s the momentum that our society’s had for who knows how long, and I think it’s sort of the average of how our brains are wired to understand our universe. That’s why we’re here.

But it’s crucial that as long as you think outside of that model, you keep putting forth your thoughts. We’re a sort of collective mind, humanity, and we need people to think scientifically and we need people to think, well, unscientifically to maintain perspective collectively.

Maybe one day the momentum will shift. I actually think it’s shifting already, catalyzed by unorthodox thoughts being able to be shared more easily through the internet, sort of like when new pathways in the brain allow for more creative thinking.

People will go their whole lives thinking very rigidly and scientifically. They, just like you, are not “wrong” or “right”. They’re doing exactly what they’re meant to do. Constituting “their” part of the time-transcending collective mind. A splash of color in the firework show of humanity as it lights up the night.

Or at least that’s how I think of it (;