2011-08-01_KERA Think Radio interview with Krys Boyd.md : One of the most noticeable changes that happened in the history of our species was the scientific revolution, which made the difference between making progress that was either absent or so slow that no human ever noticed it in their lifetime, and what has happened since then, which is that we've got used to change happening all the time and being just part of our lives. And because that was so noticeable, that change was so noticeable, people wondered what caused it, and initially they got all sorts of wrong theories about what it was that made science successful, and some truth as well. For example, it was realized almost immediately that rejecting authority was a necessary condition for making progress, authority in regard to knowledge, though this spread to political authority as well. But then, in the positive sense, what actually caused science, people got really confused and thought that we kind of absorb knowledge of nature by being open to experience, and that experience #L3