• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is why some observers have noticed that religion, ‘the God of the gaps’ especially, is dying and losing any use or meaning, leading to less metaphysical thought in everyday life, that math and physics especially now use metaphysical thought is the primary tool of new understanding and discovery. Which is bringing it back into everyday life.

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      5 months ago

      For some it’s the stock market instead of physics. Human brains are wired to invent patterns and meanings in places where there aren’t any.