Y’all, we found The Great Splitter, the one rumored to exist, whispered in phylogeny hallways to end classification forever.
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Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
I think taxonomy is pseudoscience. Chickens are dinosaurs, humans are fish, there’s no such thing as trees, oranges are a hybrid, mules aren’t a species, and neanderthals are a species. It’s bunk.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
Classification doesn’t actually increase your understanding. It just feels like understanding to white cultural values. Learn a serious field of biology like biochem, neuroscience, endocrinology, paleontology… taxonomy doesn’t create knowledge, it only creates categories.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Speak Great Splitter!
gnufuu@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
These words feel like they make sense but I don’t believe in categories so who cares what they mean.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah there isn’t one thing that can be said that will make someone so ignorant understand how wrong they are.
yuri@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
holy shit lmao
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
I thought your post was a joke at first... oh well.
eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Sure, you could also simply stand around looking at things saying “hmmmm…”. After all every observation is unique, so you could accept all the differences and just observe it as it is, say “hmmmm” and then move on to the next unique and special observation. Trying to identify commonality and give it names just throws away most of the information in each unique and special experience
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
How the fuck are you bringing race into this, what the fuck? I’m gunna assume you’re American because man that’s fucking weird
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It just feels like understanding to white cultural values
Am I reading this wrong, or are you saying science is inherently racist?
anise@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
I will defend this point(not any of the other ones tho)
Science is inherently bound to our culture in what we value, how we believe truth is produced, what we do and do not accept as valid criteria for classification.
taxonomic classification is useful, but relative to the culture that produced it, which is in large part dominated by “white” culture. A different cultural group might split along different lines.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
Of course I’m not saying that.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
So you don’t consider astronomy to be a serious field?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
There’s a lot more to astronomy than just knowing what kind of thing a thing is. We don’t just look at dots in the sky and say “ooh, that’s a neutron star, that’s a brown dwarf, and that’s a planet”.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You’re taking tongue-in-cheek pop culture factoids and your personal differences of opinion and using them to judge a field of science as fake.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
If he used other opinions I’d be inclined to agree. Taxonomy is an attempt to divide and categorize so something that can not be so cleanly divided.
The example of Neanderthals is a good one. Neanderthals and modern humans both split from homo erectus. However they were able to interbreed and they did. Frankly fully separating Neanderthals made no sense. They and homo sapiens should be considered subspecies of one another.