The beginning of infinity
From earlier notes:
- All about Good Explanations
- Think about all we know about the universe. And how little we can actually observe ourselves. The gap is explained by theories that explain
- Previous theory was empericism - observe nature and derive knowledge
- Now we think we come up with theories, then judge based on empirical data
- Inductive: learning from the past (specifics) increases predictions about future (general). Because the sun has risen every day, it will tomorrow
- Ideas must be guessed and created, they cannot be read or derived from experience
- Across all time peoole have been wondering about the stars and world and asked questions and observed the things we see… But made no progress really in most field of knowledge. They wanted to create progress but didn’t know why
- Then science emerged. It’s about creating knowledge at a noticeable rate. Why?
- Enlightenment was rebellion against authority with regard to knowledge
- Tradition of criticism
- Theory must be testable, falsifiable
- Prediction cannot be the purpose. Root understanding is - why and how it works
- Cutting off debate is the only ill that cuts itself off from being fixed
- World is multiverses
- Decisions are not weighing choices, but creating explanations
- Not same role as consulting a king. The essence of Democratic decision making is not the choice made at election but the ideas created between elections
- We are in the transition between static society (irrational memes, biological progress slower than humans notice, sustained by suppressing creativity) and dynamic (rational memes, faster than biology, professes through creativity)