See I think exploring space IS understanding ourselves just like exploring our biology is.
We've been doing the "spiritualism self understanding" thing for 100,000 years and it's just let to wars, virgin sacrifices, and other dumb human outcomes.
It's not even clear what "understanding ourselves" means.
I'd argue that Science has led to more enlightenment and improvement of the human condition than spiritualism ever has.
> We've been doing the "spiritualism self understanding" thing for 100,000 years and it's just let to wars, virgin sacrifices, and other dumb human outcomes.
Indeed. At some point, if you stare inwards hard enough, you just end up divining patterns in a random number generator.
Yeah, the harsh truth is that we've developed a part of the brain that makes us good with tools but other than that we're one step away from chimps. All of our desires for mating, hierarchy, tribalism, and status are the same. Very primitive instincts.
Any consideration that there's depth to the majority of human beings beyond sophisticated pursuit of Mating or Resources is completely delusional.
Some, very few people, have vision, but the grand majority are just existing in the four F's of survival (myself included, I'm no Elon Musk or Jobs or Einstein or Pasteur).
We've been doing the "spiritualism self understanding" thing for 100,000 years and it's just let to wars, virgin sacrifices, and other dumb human outcomes.
It's not even clear what "understanding ourselves" means.
I'd argue that Science has led to more enlightenment and improvement of the human condition than spiritualism ever has.