Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes mo… - Carl Sagan
" "Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain.
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About Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect. He testified to the US Congress in 1985 that the greenhouse effect will change the earth's climate system.
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Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office. It could be ethnic differences, as it was then, perhaps different amounts of melanin in the skin; different philosophies or religions; or maybe it’s drug use, violent crime, economic crisis, school prayer, or “desecrating” (literally, making unholy) the flag.
Nuevamente, la razón por la que la ciencia funciona tan bien es en parte este mecanismo incorporado de corrección de errores. En la ciencia no hay preguntas prohibidas, no hay temas demasiado sensibles o delicados para ser explorados, no hay verdades sagradas. Esta apertura a nuevas ideas, combinada con el escrutinio más riguroso y escéptico de todas las ideas, selecciona el trigo de la cizaña. No importa lo inteligente, venerable o querido que sea uno. Debe demostrar sus ideas ante la crítica decidida y experta. Se valoran la diversidad y el debate. Se alienta la formulación de opiniones en disputa, sustantivamente y en profundidad.
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