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Originally Posted by photon
Never is a long time. Billions of years for every second that has passed reading this.
Understanding a system is not reductionism, it's understanding.
Coming to a conclusion doesn't eliminate the complexity, it just defines it.
Very little possibility based on what? Your say so? That's not very compelling.
Why pretend it is impossible?
And you avoided the question completely.
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To answer the question I have to go to my own field, political philosophy, and say that Western society's vision of Man has changed significantly over the years and that there has never been a definitive answer. The best we can hope for is conversations between great thinkers of the pasts and ourselves to try and piece something together.
I really can't say anything more. My perceptions of past and future are probably philosophically far different than anyone else on here.