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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5892111" data-attributes="member: 8835">Perhaps another way to look at philosophy and technology is by perspective.Aristotle is going to consider and describe things from the perspective of a guy living in Ancient Greece.  His best analogy probably involves a cave and shadow puppets (and I probably just picked the wrong guy...)[MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] is a physicist who probably knows alot about quantum physics and stuff and if he espoused the nature of the universe.  Quantum physics stuff is still mostly a theory, and not actual fact.  You can't see a quantum doohickey and prove it exists.  You can't shift to a sidereal universe or time travel or teleport, despite all the cool ideas and math.Captain Picard of the 23rd and half century, has been to a few parallel dimensions and time traveled, and his ship runs on quantum fuel, would probably give a completely different and more complex nature of the universe discussion because he knows more actual facts about the univers than Umbran has theories for.The technology doesn't define the philosophy, but the more advanced and broad your universe view, the more that reflects on how you view and describe things.</blockquote>