Same with Pythagoras.
He banned beans because he thought they contained souls, demanded his followers endure years of silence, and claimed to remember his past lives (including being a Trojan hero and a fish). His secretive brotherhood treated numbers like divine beings, and he supposedly lost his mind over the music of the spheres — the idea that the planets hum cosmic harmonies. In short: a math genius, yes, but also one philosophical fever dream away from starting a numerology space religion.
oplkill@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Imagine how further could you push physic and math if you hadn’t spend all your time chasing memes
TheFogan@programming.dev 3 days ago
I mean the obvious thing is, I know I’m not capable of being that great, I do actually note how much better I could be at my expertise if I spent a bit more time studying it and less on meme’s… however it’s pretty clear I’m not anywhere near the running of pushing humanities understanding forward.
oplkill@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Even art can push humanity forward. There is no excuses for anybody for being lazy
realitista@lemmus.org 2 days ago
I think that if I really double down on my time spent studying memes I can make some real breakthroughs.