All Life is Problem Solving

Popper, All Life is Problem Solving.

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Encounters with evidence are the bumps that allow continual reformulation of these assumptions. This in no way implies that the universe separate from our perceptions is illusion.

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Indeed only fools or sophists would deny its existence, but what is the foundation for defining a "real" world? What is the real you? What is the real anything - statistically analyzed, dissected, named, viewed under an electron microscope, blasted with x rays or gamma rays, painted by Monet?

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If we open any dictionary on the word "knowledge" we find all sorts of circularity and assumptions that knowledge is primarily empirically derived. Popper's association of knowledge with expectation, or guessing, is a breakthrough in clarity.

Animals and plants carry what can be defined as unconscious guesses or theories, namely their genes and other molecular and physiological codes. It is a world of propensities. Despite perceptual and cognitive limitations, living beings do seek truth and routinely test models against assumed facts. Truth should correspond with facts, but the degree of certainty of facts varies.

Popper's attitude to the demarcation of science from other intellectual endeavours is that scientific enquiry should have no expectation of reaching a destination of final truth but rather it is about asking things about the universe in such a way that any answer is capable of being modified indeed capable of being falsified if better evidence appears.

Every answer is provisional.

All Life Is Problem Solving

Scientism, which positively declares truths, is not science Indeed, including and beyond science, all our knowledge is uncertain. Scientific testing corroborates our tentative theories it does not confirm them. Still at least in our universe, the world is roughly spherical even though many of our forefathers assumed that it was flat. The theory of evolution is similarly robust even if fine details have varying certainty. Thus some assumptions seem to be less wrong than others, i.

Still, the demarcation of science and non-science hinges on phrasing any claim in such a way that it can potentially be proven wrong, not turned into an accretion of supporting premises that is unbreakable simply because it is amorphous.

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On this point it does not matter by which source the claim is reached e. On a side note, I think too much criticism of Popper has been a sidetracked discussion of second-hand and often misattributed references rather than simply addressing his ethical challenge of making method accountable. This is unfortunate as it masks the value of demarcation in defending science against dogmatism. Creationism and intelligent design arguments tend to be accretions of self-supporting dogma rather than a critical discourse.

On a personal note I would suggest that a corollary of Popper's thought is not cynicism but an attitude of openness to the unexpected. In narrow conceit, cynics overlook the corollary to the unprovable nature of reality namely that, precisely because we cannot prove otherwise, there is always room for surprises. Perhaps meaning cannot be demonstrated in a deterministic world i.

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Popper stressed, unlike the logical positivists, that meaning can be found in unscientific statements. The search for truth as a regulatory principle hinges on inter-subjective criticism, not the shielding of our claims from refutation. Excessive expressions of certainty are bred from protesting too loudly. The universe is mysterious, we do not need to invent mystery unless we want to couple spiritual sentiment to social power and we should not fear that honest engagement will destroy mystery. There is much to surprise us.

All Life is Problem Solving

Even the prevailing metaphors in cosmology will have their used-by date. Any statement of belief should be capable of being modified or indeed discarded if the facts contradict it, but this does not mean that well-tested ideas should be let go lightly.

Karl Popper distinguished between tacit knowledge and objective knowledge. We know there is a physical world World 1 , we know there is a mental world tacit, World 2 , and we know there is a world of codes and descriptions and formulae World 3. Even when individuals die, worlds 1 and 3 still exist. Let us give Popper the last word: Against the cynical interpretation of history Waging wars for peace The necessity of peace Masaryk and the open society All life is problem solving Haldane Kant Kepler Konrad Lorenz Kyoto Prize later least lecture logical Marx Marxist Masaryk means metaphysics method mistakes moral Nansen natural numbers natural science never Newton's theory Niels Bohr objective open society Otto Hahn party peace perhaps philosopher physics political freedom Popper possible posteriori prime numbers priori knowledge problem proportional representation quantum mechanics rationalism reality refuted revolution scientific theories scientists social solve Soviet Soviet Union Spiegel theory of knowledge thesis things thought processes three-stage model tion truth University of Vienna Vienna Vienna Circle.