<!-- 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/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism, Anti-Science Panic, those 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 -->