Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

Yes. In the hierarchy of assemblies of matter, new operations emerge at sales we call disciplines, just as they do in the hierarchy of mathematical geometries and their projections.

Correct. But is it or not the search for first principles? And why is it easier to develop the first principles of chemistry – it’s largely solved. And why engineering?
Because they’re easier, because we can observe and deduce at those scales, were in the foundations of physics we lack the instrumentation, and in say, proteins we run up against extraordinary complexity.

I won’t get into how physics stopped making models and is using mathematics without understanding the first principles of math, but it’s rare to find even a mathematician that does.

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Thats nonsense. It means you falsify theories by test of construction from irreducible premises.
Science is reducible to the search for first causes, which result in first principles from which all resulting operations at all subsequent scales emerge.
You may think creatively…

Depends on what you mean by catastrophism. If you mean the disturbing regularity of great dyings, or the dramatic geological and climatological consequences on life with disturbing regularity, then I mean, that’s pretty hard to disagree with.
The electric universe is another bit of nonsense even if there is a grain of truth here and there the conclusions drawn from those grains of truth are nonsense.
There isn’t a lot of mystery left at the large scale for mankind, our evolution, or even the evolution of earth, or the evolution of the solar system.
That doesn’t mean we know everything, but we aren’t missing the exciting stuff we wish we found. In fact, just the opposite. instead we have a deeper understanding of the psychological wants for those exciting things even though they don’t exist and there is no evidence. 😉

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You’d think so but I would need to see very strong evidence that we know how the mother’s immune system attacks what cells, when, and then how to prevent that first, and otherwise, how to supplement T while at the same time not producing autism.