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If we sleep less, we can do more science. If the average sciencey paper takes about 900 minutes to write (very uneducated guess, but makes the computation easier), humanity can produce 80 million more of these per day, or 29 billion per year.

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We are headed toward Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire, where science is the ritualized province of the tech men, who have collectively forgotten more than they know, and where the doctors of the time cannot count a pulse beat without a book of the ancients. This was scientism in the "Foundation" novels, and that is the sect of secular humanism now becoming predominant in the First American Republic, which is in about the same shape as the future planet Trantor.

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About every 3rd or 4th Wm Briggs article is a MUST-LINK on FB and TW. This is one of them.

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Thanks.

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Feel free. Could be useful to confirm whether it has the fallacy as I guessed. matt a-t wmbriggs d-o-t com.

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