Don’t Forget Intuition: The art of doing science

Re:Don’t Forget Intuition: The art of doing science by burnished on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:02PM (#36946455)

You're thinking of math. That the math we've developed leads to intuitive useful results, or that it is useful for making predictions about the world is no coincidence. If science rests on anything it rests on the belief that the world operates through repeatable principles, that you can repeat an experiment and expect the same result.

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Re:Don’t Forget Intuition: The art of doing science by cscurmudgeon on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:45PM (#36947077)

> "science rests on anything it rests on the belief that the world operates through repeatable principles"

Where does the principle come from?

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Re:Don’t Forget Intuition: The art of doing science by burnished on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:05PM (#36947311)

I suspect the principle arises from elimination; the other prospects are too daunting to consider. "The universe is chaotic and false and your memories are lies because you were just created whole as you are", for example, sort of ends the conversation. Doesn't leave you much room to try and eat something tasty. And evidently even a little belief in a coherent universe is self reinforcing.

So I suppose the principle comes from the pragmatism involved with being embodied agents with needs in a hostile environment.

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