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La storia non si conclude mai

A differenza di Comte e di altri positivisti, ritiene che lo stadio positivo non sarà definitivo: l’umanità dovrà evolversi ancora, in direzioni per il momento neppure prevedibili. La scienza imboccherà nuove vie, e finiranno per imporsi altre metodologie, determinando nuovi stadi evolutivi. Fukuzawa enfatizza una concezione molto radicale del progresso: la storia non si conclude mai, e presenta di volta in volta nuovi aspetti. Del resto la filosofia giapponese ha sempre sottolineato il divenire, il peso della trasformazione nella natura e nella storia.

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#history #progress #science #positivism

Kuhn and paradigm shifts in science

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #paradigms #science #history

Leibniz withdraws his binary essay

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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #mathematics #history #publishing #science

Schultes finds natural LSD in morning glories

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The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #shamanism #science #history

The rejection of meta-narratives

Postmodernism rejected all that. The world has no real essence that is just waiting for us to describe. Reality is constituted by our understanding of it…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #postmodernism #narratives #history #science

A mescaline trip filmed by the BBC

During the mid-1950s Christopher Mayhew, former journalist and author (and at the time a member of Parliament), took mescaline under the supervision of…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #television #history

AI returns to the question of consciousness

Initial excitement about creating machine consciousness in the field’s early days faded when it was realized that creating an artificial mind would be a far…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #artificial-intelligence #machine-consciousness #history