Re: virus: The Open Universe

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Tue, 2 Jun 98 20:32:55 -0400

> The Open Universe rejects the current millennial fixation on the Ends of
>things (The End of History, The End of Science, The Last Three Minutes),
>all of which depend upon the closed notion that there is an Answer to All
>Things (which Douglas Adams satirized so well in his Hitchhiker series).
>It also rejects the false belief that just because there is no final end
>to our quest for knowledge, there can then be no standard for measuring
>the truth of a proposition.

Ah, well, I could also set you up against a phalanx of anti-Popperians,
but what's the use? I got something better and much less newagey (rhymes
with sewagey) than 'The Open Universe'.

And that is 'Consilience'. And it ain't mine in its finest form, it is E.
O. Wilson's.

And, by the Random Quanta, since when ain't the universe open...?

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