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We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units. Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Nature just published a piece on why probability doesn't exist.
Lee Cronin said many times chemical reactions are not real.
Your genetics professor probably confessed to you before that there are no genes.
Biologists still disagree on whether cell types are even real.
And we already discussed ... See more
In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It le... See more
Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
The central insight of Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science, is that science is not a collection of verifiable propositions; rather, it is a set of theories that, at best, can be wholly falsified.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
The very critical thinking that Bacon and Descartes unleashed has shown that observation requires a vast, preexisting conceptual structure, and even reason’s most obvious assumptions (Descartes’s “clear and distinct ideas”) can be mistaken.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
John von Neumann, neo-Luddite:
(von Neumann was, of course, one of the arch-technologists of all human history - contributing to the creation of everything from the digital computer to the hydrogen bomb to weather forecasting...) https://t.co/vwTqHNamjo