<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Science is inherited survival information. That... > Science is inherited survival information. That may be its deepest moral meaning: the person who died before you does not have to have died for nothing if their failure, disease, discovery, or observation can become information that keeps you alive. Civilization is the machinery by which mortality becomes memory, memory becomes knowledge, and knowledge interrupts the otherwise merciless repetition of death. **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 ``` “Science is inherited survival information. That may be its deepest moral meaning: the person who died before you does not have to have died for nothing if their failure, disease, discovery, or observation can become information that keeps you alive. Civilization is the machinery by which mortality becomes memory, memory becomes knowledge, and knowledge interrupts the otherwise merciless repetition of death.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-science-inherited-survival-merciless-repetition-death ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->