2014-05-21 11:08 GMT+02:00, LizR <[email protected]>: > On 21 May 2014 20:50, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> All these fanfarres and grandiloquent terms that sanctifies the >> holiness of science are nothing but cavemen in search for something to >> worship >> >> In that case I'm happy to worship my well lit and heated house, my >> washing > machine, dishwasher, oven, clothes, car, contraception, computer, and all > the other things that have been discovered in the course of this search. >
For sure. And your smarphone and your car, with which you sometimes talk and miss when you are away. That is also part of the primitive animism. However, the inventions and technology does not come form science it is the other way: techniques created by artisans with intuition and essay-error precedes science ever. The wright brothers were bicycle artisans. Fulton was not a professor of termodynamics. Their sciences did not exist at his time. was their machines the ones that possibilitated the experiences and the experiments. Nassim Taleb talks a lot about it http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324735104578120953311383448 "Consider Britain, whose historic rise during the Industrial Revolution came from tinkerers who gave us innovations like iron making, the steam engine and textile manufacturing. The great names of the golden years of English science were hobbyists, not academics: Charles Darwin, Henry Cavendish, William Parsons, the Rev. Thomas Bayes. Britain saw its decline when it switched to the model of bureaucracy-driven science. America has emulated this earlier model, in the invention of everything from cybernetics to the pricing formulas for derivatives. They were developed by practitioners in trial-and-error mode, drawing continuous feedback from reality. To promote antifragility, we must recognize that there is an inverse relationship between the amount of formal education that a culture supports and its volume of trial-and-error by tinkering. Innovation doesn't require theoretical instruction, what I like to compare to "lecturing birds on how to fly." That mythical inversion is, logically an ideological product of rationalism that understand that there is nothing in the human mind that gives truth with the exception of conscious rational rules, all comes from outside in the form of rules created by special, enlightened people. So a bicycle artisan can never invent an airplane, a person can not learn English without knowing grammar. no one can play an instrument without knowing the musical notation. And no one can learn a discipline without interiorizing their academic, antipedagogical, harsh manuals full of formulae, pedantic notations and formalisms devoid of humanity, history and contact with reality. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
