Difference between revisions of "Evolutionary Epistemology"
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What this means is that the foundation we have today is bad, as it is the best that we know today, but our knowledge will continue to grow and the foundations from which we build, going forward, will continue to get better. | What this means is that the foundation we have today is bad, as it is the best that we know today, but our knowledge will continue to grow and the foundations from which we build, going forward, will continue to get better. | ||
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| + | A new principle states that entities are selected because they are richer in a kind of information that enables them to perform some kind of function. This controversial hypothesis from Robert Haze, Michael Wong and others, argue that the basic laws of physics are not “complete” in the sense of supplying all we need to comprehend natural phenomena; rather, evolution — biological or otherwise — introduces functions and novelties that could not even in principle be predicted from physics alone.<ref>Philip Ball, ''Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex'' Quanta 2025-04-02 https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402/</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 11:52, 3 June 2025
Evolutionary Epistemology[1] approaches the growth of knowledge, especially scientific knowledge, in terms of evolutionary mechanisms. In other words, just as biological organisms evolve, so do the natural sciences and their practice and knowledge.
What this means is that the foundation we have today is bad, as it is the best that we know today, but our knowledge will continue to grow and the foundations from which we build, going forward, will continue to get better.
Information
A new principle states that entities are selected because they are richer in a kind of information that enables them to perform some kind of function. This controversial hypothesis from Robert Haze, Michael Wong and others, argue that the basic laws of physics are not “complete” in the sense of supplying all we need to comprehend natural phenomena; rather, evolution — biological or otherwise — introduces functions and novelties that could not even in principle be predicted from physics alone.[2]
References
- ↑ Gerard Radnitzky +2, Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge (1999-02-02) ISBN 978-0812690392
- ↑ Philip Ball, Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex Quanta 2025-04-02 https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402/
