Re: Implications of Recent Developments in Network Science

On 18 Feb 2013, at 18:41, JAG wrote:

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> --- In [email protected], Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> > On 11 Feb 2013, at 12:41, JAG wrote:
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> > > --- 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
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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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 *prove* how some methods and philosophies are truly outdated and  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. ;)
>
Yes. That is how we can progress. I think we agree with David here.




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> "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
>
The best revolution are those which changes nothing, but the angle of  
the points of view. It leads to simpler theories, with more  
applications.

Bruno




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