More random thoughts

[psaakyrn]

Science is basically a faith in patterns. Though I'd ask whether the universe is indeed orderly. There's at least two instances of pattern-breaking within current knowledge, and both instances are met with "There has to be a reason/answer/pattern, we've just not found it yet

Comments

[mr_silvers]

But that line of reasoning implies that all science that has been discovered is "set in stone."

I see it as a continuous process of improving the general model.

[terrana]

It's not really that the faith in patterns need be a permanent fixture, it's just that it's the prevailing opinion and has been for some time.

[mr_silvers]

How true. I am rather happy that modern science can change to meet the new, as it appears and is proven.

[psaakyrn]

Although "proof" isn't quite as "set in stone" as it is made out to be. Nothing except mathematics/logic is set in stone, and that's only because the two (if they can even be considered seperate) are abstract ideas. And even so, it's only the prevalent line of mathematics which is applied to the common world.

There're many lines of mathematics, which seem illogical at first thought, but are applied in the real world as well (most notaably, imaginary numbers). This serves only to prove that we're so inset in our current line of mathematics that other plausible lines appear less servicable.

[mr_silvers]

I agree fully. Unfortunately my medications are making it too difficult to think much more on the subject.