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FOS » Yesterday, 10:58 pm » wrote: ↑ pre Francis bacon 'science' was the product of just doing random stuff and learning from trial and error. There was no real understanding involved, and no concept of natural law. A more mature understanding of causality and greater precision of mathematical language was necessary for the explosion in knowledge starting in the 18th century.
for me, it is not difficult to understand why this would be the case tracing how humans pursued knowledge and how it changed over time.
But I would agree it was the product of some 'alien' advanced intelligence. That was the european of the 18th century. Nobody alive today compares. Including europeans.
Even today, with all of the tech we have, our species is still primitive.