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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Science laws won't cease to exist, but if you wipe out everyone's memory, their knowledge of that science will cease to exist - so they'll have to figure it out from zero - and there's no guarantee that there won't be another placeholder in a sense (i.e. what religions have been historically) for what's yet to understand.

Edit: maybe it's more accurate to say science laws would cease to exist, but won't cease to work; they would cease to exist in a formulated way (in that hypothetical memory loss) since they were put together by humans.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the intent is more “Scientific discoveries could be rediscovered, your One True Religion wouldn’t be.”

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, in this sense I agree. I'm overanalyzing again.