How to lead the human species in a way where each one of us lives in symbiosis with our neighbors and our environment? Research in humanities offers some ideas.
To make humanity evolve efficiently thanks to science and democracy, it is necessary to be aware of biases affecting our reflection: the limits of our measuring instruments, the difficulty of generalizing results of experience, obsolete academic foundations, influence of prejudices and fallacious arguments.
Science gives us the idea that one day, everything will be under control, since everything obeys regular rules. We just need to find the mathematical formulas which best mimic the observations, in order to make predictions.
In fact, it is true in an environment where everything is under control, and if we accepte the limits of what we can observe on our scale of space and time.
We are doomed to make misstake when we try to simplify human attitudes by numbers and categories. The human being and its environment are very complex and to think that we can totally identify and isolate a cause and an effect through an experience is an illusion. How can we put the infinite complexity of nature into a test tube?
School and university programs, museums, documentaries, ignore the abundance of discoveries based on modern tools, or an unusual point of view, that would crack the dinosaur that is the official stream.
In all scientific fields, prejudices can affect the perception of reality.
Collective work, debates, philosophical thinking and the progress of social sciences and humanities, are commonly disturbed by logical errors called “sophisms” or “logical fallacies”.
