[ExI] India and the periodic table

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] India and the periodic table

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 10:43 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>... This trend is one I hope will reverse course soon as the western world 
> realizes China and India are not caught up in our collective self-delusions.

>...With China rejecting AI and India dumping evolution and the periodic table, the Western world is looking relatively better.  At least I don't know of any school that has tossed out the periodic table.

Keith


Keith fun aside for yas: I had never seen the periodic table until I was a junior in high school in a chemistry class.  When I did, I was so amazed, I used to just sit and study it, with all the numbers, including electronegativity, the common isotopes, etc.  The answers to everything were right there on one kinda busy page.

I had never heard of the theory of evolution to any real extent until my first year of college.  If you ever try to understand biology without that concept, you appreciate the hell outta why the old timers from the 1800s realized it answered so many puzzling problems in biology.

Imagine trying to understand either chemistry or biology without the periodic table or the concept of evolution.

Prediction: both China and India will reverse course in the foreseeable future.

spike