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    Escaping The Progress Trap - Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
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    1. stopresetgo 29 Jul 2023
      The concept of the purity of science should be abandoned.
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          • we do not recognize the power of abstraction
          • through it, we begin to construct Indra's Net of Jewels, one jewel (idea) at a time
          • but each jewel (idea) that we construct is just a little knowledge, and as Dan observes, a little knowledge, compared to the endless knowledge reflected in any jewel is dangerous.
          • this then, is our dangerous predicament - we base technology on incomplete jewels of Indra's net
          • as we know from mathematics, when the finite meets the infinite, it can never win
      a little knowledge is dangerous finite meets the infinite Indra's net of jewels Indra's net
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