Back to the [[Longest Night Festival]]
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== Participants ==
* [http://artbrock.com 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