> Anybody have a really bad negative feeling toward the deconstruction of science ?
C.S. Lewis for one, this is from "The Abolition of Man":
> But you cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.
Well every layer man made transparent changed his life, and it became a chase, technologically driven mainly, to do so ad infinitum. Even though we're seeing resistance now because ignored side effects are biting us, I don't know if societies won't keep digging beyond QM so man can have room temperature super conductors and backyard fusion to power neverending fountain of youths. Until their sanity disappears.
C.S. Lewis for one, this is from "The Abolition of Man":
> But you cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.