The Sun is Not What we We Have Been Told....

[zenmaster]

I dunno. Engaging in intuitive and rational modes of investigation, and integrating those two functions seems to yield more robust arguments/perspectives.

I think Zen's argument is that scientists have been and do currently used intuition.

Yes and without an appreciation for how science may actually be conducted, there is a fallback to what might resonate from entertainment media. The "bootstraps" of society are integral with our current legacy modalities and what is practical. Just as an individual must remove distortions in order to transcend, so must a society. A bridge anchored in the actual present must always be used to reveal something new. "Mind", be it planetary or personal, must be prepared for new experience through acknowledgement and acceptance of current experience (with all of its possibly undesirable conventions).