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That's one way to look at the world I guess.
by cmrx64 10y ago
That's one way to look at the world I guess.
- zepto 10y agoHaving more than one way to look at the world is important.
- SomeStupidPoint 10y agoIt's essential: there's a reason we have physics, chemistry, biology, neurology, psychology, and sociology. (There are other similar chains of approximations.) Each provides a tractably computable approximation to a scale that the preceding ones can't be worked through at, while also discovering emergent properties that manifest at that scale. There's no reason to think that our dominant paradigms in any of those fields are the only sensible way to approximate the underlying phenomena, and other (radically different) models might be able to express features present models struggle with.
- smohare 10y agoNo evidence? Except for the vast predictive and explanatory power of science over magical thinking? Please, go ahead and list some major contributions to humanity of the latter.
- c22 10y agoWell, among other things, it gave us science.
- smohare 10y agoNo evidence? Except for the vast predictive and explanatory power of science over magical thinking? Please, go ahead and list some major contributions to humanity of the latter.
- ouid 10y agoWhy?
- mikelyons 10y agoBecause when you use a hammer to solve all of your problems, you don't end up building a very resilient structure.