Amiya

The modern caste system is built around the university diploma.

Romantic, yes. Unconditional, no.

There is no such thing as a scientific “method” in the sense of a reliable algorithm or repeatable process. We’re taught in grade school that a scientist tabulates observations, then induces a theory from those observations, and then tests them to get to the truth. But observations are themselves mini-theories (you never observe anything directly), induction from observations can’t give you novel theories (black swan problem), and testing can only eliminate competing theories, not prove them (error correction). All you’re left with is creative guesswork and then eliminating the bad guesses to get you closer to the truth, but with no finality. Not much of a process or method. “Scientists” have no special method or process that they employ. They’re doing what all of us do all day long to navigate the world, hopefully with more rigor and dedication, but it’s the exact same process at its core. What made the scientific revolution possible was a philosophical shift in which parts of western society created social conventions around rigorous truth seeking rather than continuing to justify the beliefs of the ancients. See Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity” and Karl Popper’s writing, “On the Non-Existence of Scientific Method."

The fundamental human disease is separation, and its symptom is loneliness.