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