While we're getting rid of concepts, let's just get rid of this foolish, unsubstantiated concept, "the world." What sort of heuristic is THAT?
N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:41 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias! 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 ============================================================ 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
