[FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!

[Nick Thompson]

While we're getting rid of concepts, let's just get rid of this foolish, unsubstantiated concept, "the world."  What sort of heuristic is THAT? 

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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

-----Original Message-----
From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:41 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!

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.

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