MemphistoKetemuLucifer wrote...
Funny, how it seems the culture will just meld just because you said about law of entropy. I don`t know law of entropy very much. But that itself is a mere one of many belief. U realized that I actually don`t agree with it. It is not that simple cause Race, faith, skin color, dialect can be meld into one. I can`t even imagine it. Can u enlighten me in details how it can be? U too realize right, for other than science major there is social major. Which means though the technology may seem able to overcome culture but don`t underestimate culture itself. Technology and science itself can`t beat the true worth of belief to cling with nor it can replace culture. People cling to it very dearly cause they wanted it. Like I said many times what I mean belief isn`t just limited to faith to God or not. The difference in principle itself has splitted many humanity. Like u can`t appreciate people`s thinking of killing thousands for greater goal. I`m sorry if u were mislead by what I said as belief cause I don`t know the perfect term for all things that u belief in like principle, faith, culture, and so on. So I just said it is a belief. Can u trully think that when they meld they only have one belief? Cause I don`t, the moment the all belief becomes one may only be the mark of human becomes a robot.
Well I initially didn't want to say anything about the law of entropy, because it makes claims about the way the universe works on a much larger scale than is the focus of this discussion. I don't need for the law of entropy to be true for my argument to still stand, though my stance on the subject is easily explained and supported by it.
Basically though, the law of entropy states that the disorder of a system will increase until it reaches equilibrium. In this case, equilibrium would be the point where we all share the same set of beliefs. It may seem strange to you that the state where we all share the same set of beliefs would be considered disorderly, but I can explain it more in detail if you are interested (alternatively you could just wiki it). It holds other rather serious implications relating to conduction of heat as well, but I wont get into that. It isn't called a law for nothing though, as the second law of thermodynamics it is a fundamental concept in physics.
You do raise a good point though - my argument assumes that humans have the capacity to learn the entirety of our compiled knowledge, and I suppose that is somewhat unrealistic. If we take the example where, as you said, we have a science major and a sociology major, then even though presumably they are both educated they still hold a different knowledge set. The problem here lies in that humans don't really live long enough to learn everything that an education could offer, so there will always be something that they don't understand.
At the same time though, the situation isn't quite the same either. I don't think conflicts are born out of things that we simply haven't studied, but rather they are born from things that we have studied, but disagree with. No one ever goes into a war not knowing who or what they are fighting, and no one ever goes into an argument without a sense of what the argument is about. But even so, I think we have mostly all agreed that there is a certain limit on how close we can come to being the same.
As to technology not being able to overcome peoples need to cling to their beliefs - I think you are being rather short sighted. As I said before, the true key is in what you pass on to new generations. Children are very impressionable, but older people are not. Technology as well is only the medium through which cultures will eventually blend, I did not mean that technology by itself would overcome anything.
Also, I would have thought it was clear by now that I knew you meant all types of beliefs - not merely religious ones. You might have noticed that my arguments on the convergence of culture and education include all those other beliefs you are referring to, including principles (these are just another sort of belief anyway). I don't think I ever confined myself to religion anywhere in this thread. I never meant that we would all converge on one belief either, only that we would converge on one *set* of beliefs (this should have been obvious?).