... They're designed to intimidate, rather than to educate. That's why no one would ever go to him to learn something about the world, unless how to survive the bitchiest kinds of intellectual micropolitics.
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... It comes from a diseased subculture of volunteer academic policemen.
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... Crushing headline: "Most senior professors say 'no' to Cosmic Darwinism." Cosmic Darwinism remains shockingly unintimidated.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade
Yes, because it remains as a gnosis that only exists in your head into which you can plug your social darwinism at whim.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @cyborg_nomade
You say that, but your only argument ever is "but ... but ... but daddy told me!" Lee Smolin means I can ignore the ludicrous credential stamp you're always waving about.
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... Darwinism at every level is just realism. I'd say "deal with it" but of course I know you won't.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade
This looks to me like people who say Newton level is just realism, deal with it.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @cyborg_nomade
Newtonianism doesn't explain the origin of order.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade
I truly fell for that bait, because you really don't understand the principles of physics. There is no modern physical theory the is outside of the basic constraints set by newton.
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That’s not necessarily true, various interpretation of QM are at odds with a clock work universe furthermore the interpretations that aren’t outside of determinism add sufficient complexity to change the entire outlook/perspective and narratives that can be drawn from physics
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Sure. But what I meant by constraints is the development of a certain outlook to which other theories are being compared regardless of converging upon or diverging from it.
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