This is Paracelsus, a hermetic alchemist, or proto chemist; also the greatest natural physician of his day, and a father of mineral medicinals. He believed he could produce a slave creation, or a familiar of sorts—the Homunculus—by ejaculating into a chicken egg, or worse.— ‘That the sperm of a man be putrefied by itself in a sealed cucurbit for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse's womb ["venter equinus", meaning "warm, fermenting horse dung"], or at least so long that it comes to life and moves itself, and stirs, which is easily observed. After this time, it will look somewhat like a man, but transparent, without a body. If, after this, it be fed wisely with the Arcanum of human blood, and be nourished for up to forty weeks, and be kept in the even heat of the horse's womb, a living human child grows therefrom, with all its members like another child, which is born of a woman, but much smaller.’ 328–329The original coomer, if you will.
Science as a word in its origins just meant ‘knowledge’ and ‘to know’ and this included the search for esoteric woo woo such as that left behind by the Egyptians
>>16901903Before science became a business, you had to pretty retarded to dedicate your life to it. I mean you still are today, if you are intelligent enough for STEM you're intelligent enough to have a better career somewhere else, but still.
>>16901903That wouldn't be weird back then. Everyone was superstitious and engaged in all sorts of magical thinking. What would be weird is if you weren't like that.
>>16901903He even looks like a neckbeard. Only without the neckbeard.
>>16901907FpbpPeople forget how simple and pure and prone to magical tier thinking science is
>>16901903>He believed he could produce a slave creation, or a familiar of sorts—the Homunculus—by ejaculating into a chicken egg, or worse.Ok so it didn't work It was worth a try
>>16901903Back then the elite intellectuals were about as knowledgeable and smart as the average person today. That's why everyone on 4chan and twatter has retarded schizotheories as him. Give it another 500 years and everyone will sound like post-docs do today.
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>>16901903They were posers, just like scientists today, except back then posing meant pretending to have interesting and esoteric knowledge of forbidden things while today it means peddling the Current Thing harder than anyone else.
>>16901903Basically what >>16901914 has mentioned"Science" as this separate field of study we understand today didn't exist prior to the Enlightenment. Most "scientists" before this time were big on what we consider pseudoscience/nonsense like theology, astrology, alchemy, and other forms of mysticism. Even Newton, one of the smartest men to ever live, spent far more time trying to create the Philosopher’s Stone and figure out cryptic messages from the Bible, than studying mathematics and the laws of the universe.>>16901940Knowledge ≠ IntelligenceThe average 15 year old knows more about medicine, geology, anthropology, astronomy, and any basic science today, than what historical intellectuals like Newton or Leibniz ever knew. But that's all accumulated knowledge. If they had to use raw brain power, than Newton and Leibniz would win. These two created Calculus, computing devices, and in Leibniz case, he came up with the idea of binary code and thinking machines centuries before electrical power existed.
The scientific method and its consequences...
>>16901903you need to be a whacko to spin some wires around a magnet and expect anything to happen
>>16901903Some people cum in the same coconut till it grows Maggots. Saw that on Whang. It's real
>>16902149Ewwww. Video?
>>16902080If this ever happens to me and I have to deal with germans doing the old "actually it was GERMANY" I will get a COURT ORDER to stop your bullshitting entirely.
>>16901903There wasn't a body that told them they couldn't. In other words, he was more free to experiment and do science in his own ways. Today there's peer review which you have to suck off their tranny cocks to get accepted as a "scientist". If you do you own research, you're considered a racist bigot.
>>16902692>he was more free to experiment and do science in his own waysSure, but do you figure he actually sealed the sperm of a man in a sealed cucurbit for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse's womb until it came to life and moved itself?
>>16902709Only way to find out is to replicate the study
>>16902723But how can you replicate the study if you don't even know what counts as a highest degree of putrefaction? This is exactly why there is a Replication Crisis.
>>16902736Thats why you replicate the study to the best of your ability. If you have a bone of scientist in you, you'll get this right. If you're a cargo cultist peer review guy, nothing can be done in anyway form or shape in any capacity by anyone with anything for any reason. Excuses do not make science
>>16902740What stops Paracelsus from claiming my jizz just wasn't putrefied enough for the horse womb to do its magic?
Safe science is stifling science. True science is mad science.
>>16903370You’re not even wrong. The scientific community has become so infested with pussies it has become one big giant woman.
Newton quite seriously believed you could transmute elements to gold and that the elixir of life was a real thing.
imagine the progress if we'd traded the womb for a jar and just fermented our way to the moon, we were robbed
>>16905344This sounds like something from some Japanese video game
Madness and genius go together like peanut butter and ham
>>16906924>peanut butter and ham
>>16901903>which is easily observedhe wasn't weird, he was just merely making a scientific observation
>>16907185Yes
Paracelsus was a fucking asshole who burned the texts of people he disagreed with, no matter how rare or ancient. Fuck that dick. It should be obvious just from his name.
>>16901903This is not different from pretending LLMs are sentient.
>>16907304Hey. He got a secret US Army railgun project named after him. It got destroyed on Oct. 1 1998 though. Have some respect.
>>16902080Yet Classical Mechanics have far more relevance to your everyday life than Relativity, even in 2026.
>>16907304Galileo was an asshole. Newton was an asshole.
>>16901938This unironically.
>>16905340See >>16907853
Because all notable scientists are autistic. Look at an interview with Witten for fuck's sake and tell me that guy isn't weird.
Autistic traits make for good scientific inquiry.
>>16901903You need to be kind of an obsessive weirdo to really go beyond the bounds of human knowledge and try to find something new out there.
>>16901903He is literally me.
>>16901903cant blame a nigga for trying
>>16902652Germany literally invented science though.
>>16906924I prefer peanut butter and hard boiled egg sandwiches.
>>16902080Where are the Tabula Rasa chimpanzees that have been trained to design skyscrapers from blueprints to construction?
>>16905340Technically we can transmute gold, it just costs more than it's worth.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopoeia
>>16901903Because they are based
>>16901903he's just like me fr fr
>>16901903The unknown presents infinite possibility.Scientific discovery narrows the limits of possibility more and more over time.It wasn't weird to think stuff like this might be possible back then.Over time our knowledge boxes us in more and more until magic is completely extinguished and we are all replaced by robots and humanity has 0 possibility because extinct. Scientific utopia is an Amazon warehouse of robots processing units of product for transport to other robots who immediately dump them into a landfill for maximum supply chain efficiency for the rest of all time.
>>16901903This guy is my DM
>>16901903He sounds based
>>16905340>elixir of lifestem cell research is ongoing
