[MD] Alternatives to the scientific method

[Heather Perella]

> Platt said:
> By and large science looks for "mechanisms," not
> entities 
> capable of  expressing choices.

 
> DM: Here is the heart of the matter but I ask why
> should this
> be a problem? Mechanism only implies a pattern where
> there
> is only one possible outcome, all other forms of
> behaviour have
> many possible outcomes and where we can ascribe a
> purpose
> in selecting certain outcomes over others we call
> this life or agency.
> Of course, science has moved on from its devotion to
> mechanism
> as Jos says, quantum theory being the science of the
> possible par excellence.


     On the quantum level, is anything certain?  If it
is uncertain, then why bother?  What about the
organized levels where organizational principles are
capable of being understood?  I understand the quantum
level has touched upon something different, and not
easy to quantify.  It is a big shift in what science
knew once before, but what is it that the quantum
level has found other than our current limits?

green,
SA


       
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