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Philosophy and Science

RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
edited 2011-11-25 21:43:19 in Philosophy
I find it amusing that science's discoveries become philosophy's metaphors.

Comments

  • DonZabuDonZabu
    Details?
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    Well, I'm using "science" and "philosophy" in a broad sense ("science" includes engineering and computation and such while "philosophy" encompasses the humanities), but for one, there's the whole functionalist theory of mind which describes mental states like the states programmers speak of. Also, apparently Newton's universal laws got political thinkers of the time thinking humans are governed by universal laws as well as opposed to nobles having different laws from peasants.
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    Quantum mysticism sorta falls into this; the difference being that many of the people who subscribe to it don't think they're using it as a metaphor...
  • BeeBee
    Historically science and philosophy were extremely closely entwined, so I'm not surprised there's a lot of overlap.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET
    They're converging more and more again(yay for interdisciplinary clusterfuck). Case-in-point: bio-art.
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