Which suggests we need a new indefinite science rather than a rejection of the everyday world in favor of precisely calculable entities....
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Yes… although most science doesn’t attempt precise calculations because they are impossible. It’s mostly only physics that does, which makes it unfortunate that it is taken as the prototype for all sciences. Molecular biology looks for mechanisms, not numerical laws.
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A chair is any subset of physical reality to which my intuitive generative model of chairs affords me a predictive control of sitting behavior.
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Whitehead is one philosopher who wouldn't have made that mistake :)
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Isn’t the whole “take a chair for example” philosophy trope precisely about deconstructing the chair as a definite object?
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What about electrons or black holes? Those seem like simple objects with defined properties
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Yes; neither is “human-scale.”
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We are fractals being surrounded by fractals in a fractal spacetime.
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And some of us are watching artificially generated fractals on a screen for a living.
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