Episode 10.07: That we have evolved and emerged with inadequate ways of making sense is forgivable.

It’s futile to conjecture whether the human species could have evolved with a different, better conceptual system, a better way of making sense of the world. And it is not reprehensible that we have emerged as we have, believing in the necessity of leaders and gods and universal absolute moral and scientific rules and laws. But just as with the inadequacies of Newtonian physics and Aristotelian biology we needed to change the basis of our understanding and move on and could not move on unless and until we changed the basis of our understanding, so it is now incumbent upon us, in the light of the unsustainable way we think of human prosperity and thriving, to change how we make sense not only of biology and physics, but of life itself.