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I’d say they don’t matter nearly so much as art. The most cosmically significant export of humanity to date is Voyager’s golden record.


While art is certainly very important, I believe it doesn't have the same impact upon our lives as math has.

And if you believe art is about creativity, you can find beauty and art in in mathematics and other sciences.

Many great mathematicians were also art lovers, they appreciated music, they appreciated paintings and other forms of art.

I don't think there's a dichotomy between art and sciences.


I agree 100% with everything you say. However, I don’t believe that the “impact on lives” of scientific advances, whilst certainly being of tremendous interest and importance to the humans, carries into much universal significance.


Good thing the founders of modern science, mathematics, ethics and political theory didn't share the same opinion.


Ridiculous hubris, to claim to speak on their behalf, to claim to know the opinion of so many and diverse minds, and in such a crude misdirection to boot.


Good thing they wrote volumes about it which have debated and summarized to the hilt.


The summary is that without art, humans are cosmically uninteresting.


I would like some stuff to read on this if possible.


SEP contains dense summaries of every major thinker with extremely high quality references. Random example https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/




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