science and democracy ii

The problem in science is really lack of diversity. People

caricature capitalism and evolution as being survival of the

fittest or winner takes all. In this view darwianian systems

consist of a competition in which there is a single winner that

takes all the spoils. However this is really a very misleading

way of looking at darwinian systems. The real truth is that

there isn't one fittest organism (or a single monopoly as

marxists would have as believe) that survives, instead there is

a tremendous diversity of different organisms that survive.

This is because there are many different niches to be filled

and no one organism is equally good at filling all of them. So

there is specialization which also happens in capitalism.

However in physics and science this is not the case. There is

only one correct theory. One true account. Everything else is

wrong and is therefore discounted. There is not intellectual

diversity instead there is exclusiveness. The real problem is

not that Germans are too conservative or that American's are

too radical. The problems is that there is not diversity in

science. There is not acceptance of diversity, of a

multiplicity of different theories or ideas all coexisting;

each having there own weaknesses and there own advantages.

We need a more post modern science.

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