Nikolay B Petrov
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Radical Claims: Fallible, But Necessary for Knowledge Production
Through radical claims you push the boundaries of knowledge. Integrating and reconciling those radical claims is how you establish the foundations of knowledge.
Book Summary – The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry by Rupert Sheldrake
Sheldrake’s The Science Delusion (2013) is an ambitious challenge to the materialistic mindset, deeply embedded in the current scientific worldview. The book itself comes as a provocative response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, which made the case for science as an objective, all-knowing way to access the material reality. Sheldrake, a Christian himself, in turn, argues that such a materialistic view of science is restraining and dogmatic. One of the worst dogmas which underlies all others, a meta-dogma, if you will, is that science has everything figured out and we just need to work out the details.
Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem: Summarized
Any sufficiently expressive2 math system is either incomplete or inconsistent and any consistent math system cannot prove its consistency. In other words, the theorem says that not all true statements in mathematics have proof.