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Michael Magoon's avatar

Great article.

A good label for something is a first step, but only the first step. You must then go on to address causality.

Causality in complex evolving systems can be very difficult to untangle. It becomes even more complicated for entire human societies.

This is how I think about the issue:

When viewed from a very high level, evolutionary processes require two things:

1) Necessary pre-conditions that enable lower-level factors to come into existence and survive and change over time. There are often many different pre-conditions that must come together to create the “Goldilocks conditions.” At any time, the pre-conditions can disappear and the entire evolutionary process collapses.

2) Specific mechanics that explain how that evolution takes place. This usually consists of multiple mechanics that interact with each other in complex ways.

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Chinmaya's avatar

Nothing against falsification, it has been widely used in recent years, however worth reading about how it became famous and does it really help distinguish from science & non-science?

Short answer, NO.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/michael-d-gordin-fate-falsification/

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