Sublime

In Into The Woods, John Yorke suggests that the way we tell stories is indicative of our desire to find order in the world. Stories are an attempt to tame the terrifying randomness that surrounds us. As we go through life, we are constantly absorbing chaotic information that we make sense of through narratives. Yorke writes that “every act of perce

Scientific knowledge is the process of continuously modifying and improving our conception of the world, selectively and constantly questioning the assumptions and beliefs on which it is based, searching for modifications that prove to be more effective.

In the field of knowledge, the discovery is that allowing free criticism and questioning, granting anyone the right to take part in discussions, and taking all proposals seriously does not result in an inconclusive cacophony. On the contrary, it leads to the rejection of the weak hypotheses and the emergence of the best ideas.

The apparent determinism of the macroscopic world is due only to the fact that the microscopic randomness cancels out on average, leaving only fluctuations too minute for us to perceive in everyday life.

It was not new experimental data that led to the great conceptual leap represented by special relativity, but rather Einstein’s faith in the conceptual appropriateness of theories that had shown themselves to be empirically adequate, their apparent contradictions notwithstanding. This reconstruction of the logic of a scientific revolution stands al