Comment on Taxonomy

Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Speak Great Splitter!

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    • yuri@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      holy shit lmao

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    • gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      These words feel like they make sense but I don’t believe in categories so who cares what they mean.

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      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah there isn’t one thing that can be said that will make someone so ignorant understand how wrong they are.

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    • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought your post was a joke at first... oh well.

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    • eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So you don’t consider astronomy to be a serious field?

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      • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”.

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    • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It just feels like understanding to white cultural values

      Am I reading this wrong, or are you saying science is inherently racist?

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      • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Of course I’m not saying that.

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