I KNEW that confirmation bias was a problem and NOW this confirms it! I TOLEYA!
On 4/24/19 5:25 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > Our World Isn't Organized into Levels > https://philpapers.org/rec/POTOWI?ref=mail > >> In my view, our adherence to the levels concept in the face of the >> systematic problems >> plaguing it amounts to a failure to recognize structure we’re imposing on >> the world, to instead >> mistake this as structure we are reading off the world. Attachment to the >> concept of levels of >> organization has, I think, contributed to underestimation of the complexity >> and variability >> of our world, including the significance of causal interaction across >> scales. This has also >> inhibited our ability to see limitations to our heuristic and to imagine >> other contrasting >> heuristics, heuristics that may bear more in common with what our world >> turns out to >> actually be like. Let’s at least entertain the possibility that the >> invocation of levels can >> mislead scientific and philosophical investigations more than it informs >> them. I suggest that >> the onus is on advocates of levels of organization to demonstrate the >> well-foundedness and >> usefulness of this concept. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
