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A Truly Open Mind Means Forcing Our Imaginations To Conform To The Evidence Of Reality, And Not Vice Versa.

We Now Know That We Are More Insignificant Than We Ever Imagined. If You Get Rid Of Everything We See, The Universe Is Essentially The Same. We Constitute A 1 Percent Bit Of Pollution In A Universe . . . We Are Completely Irrelevant.

Philosophy Used To Be A Field That Had Content, But Then Natural Philosophy Became Physics, And Physics Has Only Continued To Make Inroads. Every Time Theres A Leap In Physics, It Encroaches On These Areas That Philosophers Have Carefully Sequestered Away To Themselves, And So Then You Have This Natural Resentment On The Part Of Philosophers.

Metaphysical Speculation Is Independent Of The Physical Validity Of The Big Bang Itself And Is Irrelevant To Our Understanding Of It.

Empirical Explorations Ultimately Change Our Understanding Of Which Questions Are Important And Fruitful And Which Are Not.