"But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result. What had been the study and desire of the wisest men since the creation of the world was now within my grasp"
Victor Frankenstein
Title: The Original Frankenstein
Authors: Mary Shelley
#ai #Scientism #technocracy
“Metaphysics…is not a medieval relic but what prevents science from hardening into a a new kind of dogmatism all its own.”
—Matthew Segall, Heaven Save Us from Metaphysics in Denial
#metaphysics #science #scientism
“Whitehead’s “fallacy of misplaced concreteness” is perhaps his single most relevant concept for diagnosing the rhetoric of contemporary scientism. The fallacy involves taking mathematical models developed for certain purposes under certain idealizations and insisting that whatever does not fit inside them is unreal.”
—Matthew Segall, Heaven Save Us from Metaphysics in Denial
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/heaven-save-us-from-metaphysics-in
#whithead #science #scientism
Heaven Save Us from Metaphysics in Denial

On the Philosophical Feud between Walter Veit and Philip Goff

☿Footnotes²Plato☀☾

A discussion with @snapshotsmith about "Determinism" and scientific truth reminded me that the gap between science and #Scientism is wide.

Incidentally a close friend sent me the paper below on Rosennean Complecity by #Siekmann. Section 5 lists the 3 commandments of modelling in #science ... that's Lie, Cheat and Steal. That's at least honest.

Siekmann, Ivo. "An applied mathematician's perspective on Rosennean Complexity." Ecological Complexity 35 (2018): 28-38.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7270781/pdf/main.pdf

It's really curious... I post something about the connections between #math and #magic, between #Science and #Esotericism, between #BeliefSystems in #technology and #religion, and it's unlikely that people react to my post.

Let's face it, if thinking about the history of #CommonSense and science amounts to #heresy then it's #scientism.

New vid essay from Dr. Abdurrahman just dropped:

"The boring kind of degeneracy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7a65AvELdU

#DrFatima #scientism #ScienceHistory #anarchism

How Galileo Broke the Scientific Method

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"What I find fantastic is any notion that there are answers beyond the realm of science. The answers are there. You just have to know where to look."

Dana Scully, The #XFiles, s01e01

#TV #SciFi #conspiracy #scientism

"Civil society groups warn new Asilomar conference: Scientists must not be allowed to self-regulate"

https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20512

#Scientism #ScienceIsNotNeutral

Civil society groups warn new Asilomar conference: Scientists must not be allowed to self-regulate

Open statement says some technologies pose “existential threats” to humanity

Why you must be logical and scientific to be a good person

In this week's Mini Philosophy interview with Massimo Pigliucci, we see why the Stoics and Skeptics thought science was so important.

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@GMWatch Excellent indeed! This misleading myth of science neutrality must be ditchet. As if scientists were free from social-economic, political or self-interest and science is a thing on its own and not a product of society that needs to be discussed by societal forces
#ScientificHistory #Scientism