<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The Enlightenment was the proposition that reality... > The Enlightenment was the proposition that reality could be interrogated rather than merely inherited. Science industrialized that interrogation. Computation accelerated it. AI begins automating portions of the interrogation itself. To oppose that categorically is not conservatism; it is an argument against the multiplication of human inquiry. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The Enlightenment was the proposition that reality could be interrogated rather than merely inherited. Science industrialized that interrogation. Computation accelerated it. AI begins automating portions of the interrogation itself. To oppose that categorically is not conservatism; it is an argument against the multiplication of human inquiry.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-enlightenment-proposition-reality-multiplication-human-inquiry ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->