Back to the Longest Night Festival
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Participants
- Art Brock ... convener
- Ben Sibelman
Discussion
- Current scientific methods are about separation (isolating phenomena, keeping the observer from affecting the experiment, etc)
- There is a paradigm shift afoot to more systems-focused science, where we look at relationships and flows
- Aspects of the new system
- Acknowledges that people are not rational
- Helps avoid long periods of denial before accepting a new model that better fits the evidence
- Which in turn helps science adapt to the rapid pace of change in the modern world
- Example: new version of the ether theory, positing a plasma (instead of a solid) that establishes an absolute reference frame
- Acknowledges that many steps in science are subjective, not objective
- Sees objects as momentary accumulations in a flow
- Transcends and includes description of the world as objects