RE: virus: Sham(an) again
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:06:54 +0100
> From: David McFadzean[SMTP:david@lucifer.com]
>
> At 12:02 PM 9/16/97 -0700, Eva-Lise Carlstrom wrote:
>
> >That depends on the question. If the question is "Are the blue rocks
> all
> >salty?", then by sucking them you're testing a hypothesis. That's a
> >scientific experiment. If, however, the question is "What do all
> these
> >things taste like, anyway?", it's simply sampling, not testing any
> >particular hypothesis.
>
> Maybe I'm being stubborn again, but I don't understand how exploring
> the world can be considered the reverse of science. (Has anyone found
> the reference in the Principia Cybernetica web?)
>
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/TRIALERR.html
This is one of the fundamental principles of evolution. There is no
theoretical aspect to it, whatsoever, which is why it's not science.
This is not a case of which comes first, experiment or hypothesis,
because there is no hypothesis, and therefore, unless you use
the word very loosely, no experiment either.
Robin