The Wright Brothers deceived the world. What was their motive?

[Boojatta]

It's obvious that they had some genuine appreciation for science and technology. So please don't tell me that they were ignorant. They knew that human behavior is fully determined by the interaction of genes and the environment. Also, they almost certainly could foresee that the world wouldn't forever confine itself to building exact copies of their airplanes. Yet the Wright Brothers didn't let this knowledge stop them.

History gives the impression that for thousands of years human beings had no way to operate, in a controlled manner, heavier-than-air flying vehicles. Then the Wright Brothers succeeded. After that, there was a flowering of designs. The Wright Brothers conspired to create the impression that what they contributed was an idea, along with a practical demonstration that the idea had merit.

Airplanes are real and even though blueprints are flimsy and insubstantial compared to airplanes, blueprints are real. Blueprints consist of paper, and highly visible but not very massive amounts of ink stuck to the paper. However, ideas aren't real. A discussion about ideas is merely noisy chatter and metaphysical humbug. Reality consists of matter, energy, and nothing else.

After all, psychology is a science. How could there be a science of human behavior if the environment in which human beings live is saturated with ideas? There are ideas in just about any conversation, diary entry, song, poem, short story, movie, etc. If psychology researchers attempted to understand and appreciate all such things and the influence of all such things, then their subject area would expand to include every aspect of human experience. If someone thinks of an idea for a new flavor of ice-cream, then a research scientist could use research funds to perform the experiment of buying a scoop and tasting it.