Re: Implications of Recent Developments in Network Science

--- In [email protected], Bruno Marchal <marchal@...> wrote:
>
> On 11 Feb 2013, at 12:41, JAG wrote:
> 
> > --- In [email protected], "hibbsa" wrote:
> > > Here's the extra implication to the domain of 'philosphy of science' as
> > > I see it.
> >
> > Greetings to all.....
> >
> > not exactyly a respond to the topic discussed here but here is  
> > another real-LEGIT implication to the domain of philosophy of  
> > science (that is, according to Hume's following idea):
> >
> > "How is 'experimental reasoning' about causes and effects itself
> > justified? In terms of deduction? that is impossible since the
> > conclusion of inductive arguments are not deductively derivable from
> > their premises. In terms of experimental reasoning? that is arguing
> > in circle."
> >
> 
> Computationalism does illustrate why experimental reasoning can be  
> justified from some principle in philosophy/metaphysics/theology.
> 
> If you believe that the brain is Turing emulable, the physical reality  
> exists and consists in the sum of all possible (arithmetical)  
> computations going through your computational states.
> 
> The only mystery which remains is our belief in elementary arithmetic,  
> but this one, can be justified not being amenable to anything simpler.  
> It has to be a mystery, somehow.
> 
> Hume, unconsciously, assumed an Aristotelian conception of reality. I  
> think that we can doubt about it.
> 
> Bruno
> 
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From a META-theoretical point of view 'Computationalism' could also *prove* how some methods and philosophies are truly outdated and problematic.  ;)


"The transition from a paradigm in crisis to a new one from which a new tradition of normal science can emerge is far from a cumulative process ... Rather it is a reconstruction of the field from new fundamentals, a reconstruction that changes some of the field's most
elementary theoretical generalizations..." 
-Thomas Kuhn