It’s not a trick. It’s that we don’t know how to study these things yet, but that shouldn’t be an excuse for throwing our hands up in the air and not trying to investigate them. Gravity wasn’t always well crystallized. It took us time to develop and understand it.
I highly recommend Stafford Beer’s writings and the Designing Freedom book and/or lectures.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-...
Re:Adam Curtis Explains It All
by shaunxcode on Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:05PM
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I concur and am also a stafford beer fan. I also dig Adam Curtis body of work - however his demonization of cybernetics is frustrating.
I think if these other theories had explanations as well crystallized as the action of gravity, the other poster would not object to presenting them. It's not an interesting analogy, it's a trick to legitimize hand waving about other things.
(we may not fully understand the mechanisms by which gravity acts, but we understand the effect it has quite well, to the point where we can GPS for instance, because we can precisely account for the very small differences in the way time passes in orbit)