I'm facilitating one of the follow-up discussions for my philosophy course at #ISTA today. We're discussing what a #metamodern #science for the 21st century could look like.

This is a good opportunity to toot my own vision, outlined in this short essay: https://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/toward-a-metamodern-science

... and elaborated in my emerging book #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines
https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/an-emerging-book.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/116270760514177310

This is dangerous and idiotic hubris.

The underlying fallacy is simple: our tech overlords live in their own delusional map of the world, and they are so caught up in their own bullshit "philosophy" that the world is a computer, to be controlled and manipulated at will, that they don't even see the territory anymore.

Small vs. large worlds, as I describe in my book:
https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/an-emerging-book.html

We must go #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, not into a digital trap.

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915

Just one more boost for this wonderful conversation about a science for the 21st century, beyond the view of the world as a machine:

https://youtu.be/lL0bkHQeanY

Highlights from the conversation are available here:

https://youtu.be/C0e5qcBnJ5E
https://youtu.be/oHOGdAbXL-k
https://youtu.be/We25VbAN7pw
https://youtu.be/UdEl3CmzU3A

#philosophy #science
#BeyondTheAgeOfMachines

We are now adding PDF versions of the chapters of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines to the website, so you can read them offline:

https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/an-emerging-book.html

Chapters 0-2 are done already. The others will follow over the next few weeks.

Spread the news to your online-reading-averse friends!

Example below from:
https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/2-12-theses.html

William Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated.

I'll be posting more quotes of his in this thread as I'm going through the book for my chapter 13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, and a paper that I'm writing.

Our daily Wimsatt quote gives useful advice to philosophers of science about giving advice to scientists. What we want is a philosophy that is useful to science, not condescending, but also not purely descriptive ... (quote 👇)

Bill Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated. I'll be posting quotes as I'm going through the book for my ch13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, and a paper that I'm writing.

This one is so long that I'm posting it as a picture. Not easy to parse, but if you understand what it says, you've made a huge step towards understanding the multi-perspectival (but not arbitrary!) nature of scientific knowledge construction.

Bill Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated. I'll be posting quotes as I'm going through the book for my ch13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, & a paper that I'm writing.

This one simply says: science isn't perfect, but it adapts like nothing else.

"A naturalistic worldview of the genesis and operation of functionally organized evolving systems is heuristics all the way down — as far down as entities or configurations of them are products of selection."

William Wimsatt is the best philosopher of science of recent times. And the most underrated. I'll be posting more quotes as I'm going through the book for my ch13 of #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines, and a paper that I'm writing.

And another one that's bleedingly obvious, but apparently not to some philosophers and silicon-valley types:

"We aren't God and we don't have a God's-eye view of the world."