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But as the great physicist Erwin Schrödinger put it in Science & Humanism, it seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, τίνες δὲ ἡμεῖς; ‘Who are we?’ 3
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Yes! A better translation will be "Who then are we?" That is who are we in light of what we have disvovered?
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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