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The Future of Post-Human Formal Science - A Preface to a New Theory of Abstraction and Application (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Future of Post-Human Formal Science - A Preface to a New Theory of Abstraction and Application (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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What exactly is so appealing in formal science, such that its
influence can be seen in numerous disciplines nowadays, for
practical purposes like better functionality, performance, and so
on-as Pythagoras already famously said in antiquity: "Number is the
ruler of forms and ideas and the cause of gods and demons"?This
contemporary addiction to practical convenience in formal science
has turned a blind eye to its other side, which has impoverished
both our knowledge of reality and the well-being of our
lifeworld.Contrary to conventional wisdom, the other side of this
appealing addiction has yet to be comprehensively understood, nor
has the fact that its practical convenience is neither possible nor
desirable to the extent that the proponents of formal science would
like us to believe. Needless to say, this by no means suggests that
formal science should not be used for practical purposes, or that
the literature in formal science (and other related fields like
computer science, information theory, microeconomics, decision
theory, statistics, and linguistics, just to cite a few of them)
should be dismissed. Of course, neither of these two extreme views
is reasonable either.Instead, this book provides an alternative
(better) way to understand the nature of formal science, especially
in relation to systems theory for practical convenience-while
learning from different approaches in the literature but without
favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not
necessarily compatible with each other). In the end, this book
offers a new theory to transcend the existing approaches in the
literature in a new direction not thought of before. This seminal
project is to fundamentally alter the way that we think about
formal science, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature,
society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human
future and what I originally called its "post-human" fate.
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