[FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!

[Steven A Smith]

I KNEW that confirmation bias was a problem and NOW this confirms it!

I TOLEYA!

On 4/24/19 5:25 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> Our World Isn't Organized into Levels
> https://philpapers.org/rec/POTOWI?ref=mail
>
>> In my view, our adherence to the levels concept in the face of the systematic problems
>> plaguing it amounts to a failure to recognize structure we’re imposing on the world, to instead
>> mistake this as structure we are reading off the world. Attachment to the concept of levels of
>> organization has, I think, contributed to underestimation of the complexity and variability
>> of our world, including the significance of causal interaction across scales. This has also
>> inhibited our ability to see limitations to our heuristic and to imagine other contrasting
>> heuristics, heuristics that may bear more in common with what our world turns out to
>> actually be like. Let’s at least entertain the possibility that the invocation of levels can
>> mislead scientific and philosophical investigations more than it informs them. I suggest that
>> the onus is on advocates of levels of organization to demonstrate the well-foundedness and
>> usefulness of this concept.