RE: My blog
February 24, 2015 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2015 at 8:35 pm by watchamadoodle.)
@robvalue, I saw a typo on the scientific method page - "apparrent" (near the end).
I've only just started reading your blog. I like your description of the scientific method in familiar terms.
On the "natural and supernatural" page, I think "predictable and unpredictable" or "deterministic and non-deterministic" is more meaningful. Billiards balls are normally predictable. Of course the atoms in the billiards balls are unpredictable, but that unpredictability is unlikely to trickle-up. On the other hand, certain systems might magnify the unpredictable behavior of the atoms. Maybe the human brain works that way, so that we could never predict human behavior with the same confidence as billiard ball behavior. IMO quantum mechanics says that nothing is purely predictable or unpredictable. Everything is a mixture. Maybe ultimately everything is deterministic, but we can't measure the states accurately enough to make predictions.
Scientists should recognize the unavoidable wooishness of reality and not be so conservative IMO
I've only just started reading your blog. I like your description of the scientific method in familiar terms.
On the "natural and supernatural" page, I think "predictable and unpredictable" or "deterministic and non-deterministic" is more meaningful. Billiards balls are normally predictable. Of course the atoms in the billiards balls are unpredictable, but that unpredictability is unlikely to trickle-up. On the other hand, certain systems might magnify the unpredictable behavior of the atoms. Maybe the human brain works that way, so that we could never predict human behavior with the same confidence as billiard ball behavior. IMO quantum mechanics says that nothing is purely predictable or unpredictable. Everything is a mixture. Maybe ultimately everything is deterministic, but we can't measure the states accurately enough to make predictions.
Scientists should recognize the unavoidable wooishness of reality and not be so conservative IMO
