As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.
These forays into the real world sharpened his view that scientists needed the widest possible education. He used to say, __ow can you design for people if you don__ know history and psychology? You can__. Because your mathematical formulas may be perfect, but the people will screw it up. And if that happens, it means you screwed it up._ He peppered his lectures with quotations from Plato, Chaka Zulu, Emerson, and Chang-tzu. But as a professor who was popular with his students__nd who advocated general education__horne found himself swimming against the tide. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. In this climate, being liked by your students was a sign of shallowness; and interest in real-world problems was proof of intellectual poverty and a distressing indifference to theory.
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These forays into the real world sharpened his view that scientists needed the widest possible education. He used to say, __ow can you design for people if you don__ know history and psychology? You can__. Because your mathematical formulas may be perfect, but the people will screw it up. And if that happens, it means you screwed it up._ He peppered his lectures with quotations from Plato, Chaka Zulu, Emerson, and Chang-tzu. But as a professor who was popular with his students__nd who advocated general education__horne found himself swimming against the tide. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. In this climate, being liked by your students was a sign of shallowness; and interest in real-world problems was proof of intellectual poverty and a distressing indifference to theory.
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