Thursday, April 30, 2009

Reading these two chapters made me think about frontiers and the impact that discovery has on knowledge and philosophy. Having explored much of the Earth (minus perhaps the bottom of the ocean) and having explored "space" in our immediate vicinity, where are the frontiers of the future? I doubt that we're going to discover the equivalent of the America's in quite the same way Colombus did, and so it seems as though the notion of a frontier has fundamentally changed. What discoveries will spark a change in the way we think about thinking and in the way we view marvels? Are the frontiers no longer physical but technological and psychological?

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