A lot of people really need to be reminded of this.
I originally came to this critique via Heidegger, who argues that enlightenment thinking essentially forgets / obscures Being itself, a specific mode of which you experience at this very moment as you read this comment, which is really the basis of everything that we know, including science, technology, and rationality. It seems important to recover and deepen this understanding if we are to have any hope of managing science and technology in a way that is actually beneficial to humans.
Brilliant way to phrase this idea! I think its incredible that we can even manage an imperfect way to escape our "social" brain. It's clearly very powerful - math, and thus all of science, only exist because of how weird predaliction to thinking abstractly enough to (sorta) break our social bounds. At least when thinking in these terms, I am sure you can poke holes in it.
I originally came to this critique via Heidegger, who argues that enlightenment thinking essentially forgets / obscures Being itself, a specific mode of which you experience at this very moment as you read this comment, which is really the basis of everything that we know, including science, technology, and rationality. It seems important to recover and deepen this understanding if we are to have any hope of managing science and technology in a way that is actually beneficial to humans.