Your paragraph that outlines your position mixes multiple different things into the concept of reason.
There’s the intelligence of individual scientists or engineers, there are conceptual issues and there’s the quality of institutions.
An organizations that’s a heavily disfunctional immoral maze is going to innovate less new technology then an organization with access to the same resources but with a better organizational setup.
When it comes to raw intelligence that a lot of the productive engineers have an IQ that far exceeds that of the average population.
Conceptual insights like the idea of running controlled trials heavily influence the medical technology that can be developed in our society. We might have had concepts that would have allowed us to produce a lot more vaccines against COVID-19 much earlier
Your paragraph that outlines your position mixes multiple different things into the concept of reason.
There’s the intelligence of individual scientists or engineers, there are conceptual issues and there’s the quality of institutions.
An organizations that’s a heavily disfunctional immoral maze is going to innovate less new technology then an organization with access to the same resources but with a better organizational setup.
When it comes to raw intelligence that a lot of the productive engineers have an IQ that far exceeds that of the average population.
Conceptual insights like the idea of running controlled trials heavily influence the medical technology that can be developed in our society. We might have had concepts that would have allowed us to produce a lot more vaccines against COVID-19 much earlier