[MD] Intention changes physical world (some questions)

[Case]

[David M]
They are not going to catch up though are they? different sort of thing
really, using different methods with v.little in common method wise. One
problem is human behaviour is constantly changing. So are economies, values,
etc. So constant new territory appearing and the old disappearing. Also
can't do experiments very easily as manipulation of conditions, etc, not
moralor practical. So always big danger in human sciences of bogus claims of
science as robustness so hard to achieve. Economic theory is awfully
speculative according to some philosophers. 

Nick Maxwell suggests it would be better called social inquiry rather than
social science.

[Case]
Saying that social sciences are behind does not mean they are invalid or not
catching up. I would say they are still in the stage of deciding what
questions to ask and how to fit together the answers found so far.
Meteorology took a big hit when Lorenz showed that long term prediction is
impossible in principle but it is not like all the meteorologists folded up
their tents and went home.

The study of complex systems is even younger than the social sciences and it
is having a transforming effect on all sciences.

I don't mean to suggest that Asimov's Hari Seldon is on the verge of
unleashing psychohistory on us but the fruits of social sciences are finding
their way into our culture. They fact that such application goes unnoticed
is more disturbing than the lack of progress in the social sciences. Social
inquiry? I think not.