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Fiat Lies are Genocide on the Human Race
The science of lies is a cognitive science. René Descartes (1596–1650 AD) of Cartesian Coordinates fame, e.g. “(x,y)”, was the father of cognitive science. Seeking the nature of truth, he said “I think therefore I am.” How our brains compute determines the truth that we see and therefore the control we have over our destiny.
Descartes knew lies. He said “nature is God, and God cannot lie”, therefore studying nature is studying God. The root of nature, as humans will understand it, is in how our brains work. “I think therefore I am.” Four hundred years later, the man who arguably began the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, was also saying that people always lie.
That is how we all think. Truth is difficult for any person. That Age brought about Science as we know it today and the Rules of Evidence in Law. These became our social process to needle out the truth when it can be found through the mess that is our thinking, understanding, and argument.
We are now confronted again with an age where lies are too free and need to be tempered down. Descartes arguably saved himself from the Inquisition, the conspiracy theory killing a lot of people of his day, by asserting God does not lie.
Even lies can be a subject of science, just as they are a subject of law. God does not lie. Lies…
