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Alan Moore on Science and Imagination wearing a Sperm-Shirt

Alan Moore, da weiß man Bescheid. Was ich aber nicht wusste ist, dass er ziemlich clever auf eine friedliche Weise über Wissenschaft und Religion plaudern kann, man dabei aber trotzdem von seinem Shirt mit dem überblöden Wortspiel abgelenkt wird. Dinge, die er da zum Beispiel sagt, sind:

I would prefer a two-state solution. My basic premise is that human beings are amphibious, in the etymological sense of ‘two lives’. We have one life in the solid material world that is most perfectly measured by science. Science is the most exquisite tool that we’ve developed for measuring that hard, physical, material world. Then there is the world of ideas which is inside our head. I would say that both of these worlds are equally real – they’re just real in different ways. The concept of a world of ideas, yes it’s intangible, it can’t be repeated in a laboratory, but pretty much the evidence for it is all around us. In that, every detail of our clothing, our mindsets, of the buildings and the streets and cities that surround us – that started life as an idea in someone’s head.

Und die sind wie gesagt clever. Ein bisschen hirnverdrehend, aber spannend und interessant und irgendwann hat man sogar das furchtbare T-Shirt vergessen. (via)