On 13/01/2021 21:13, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> The faith part in science comes in with the assumption that it is
> possible to construct ever more accurate models because we are modelling
> something that really does behave predictably. There is no way of knowing
> that the universe does behave predictably everywhere and at all times, but
> if it doesn't then we can't model it so that is a useful assumption that
> has so far not been invalidated.

Id put that differently, the faith part of it consists in ascribing
absolute real objective status to what is in fact a world *view*,
namely that the world is a picture painted by matter/energy on a canvas
of flat space time, according to strict laws of Causality and Natural
Law, all of which can be precisely expressed by linear or in some cases
non linear partial differential equations.

This grew out of a pre-enlightenment view that is more or less
expressible as 'stuff happens, because...' by diminishing the role of
'spirit' from the 'creator of the material world' to that of 'the
detached observer' .

400 years on, give or take, its taken us a long way and people are
naturally reluctant to abandon it.

It's never been more than utter crap at explaining how people behave though.


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