Post #3019953

Hello @tomstafford , I'll dive right in ;) Who might I talk to about a metascience related observation, on a specific set of (problematic) characteristics of scientific study (& respective artefacts thereof), which are simultaneously:- 1) so seemingly fundamental and intangible as to have gone unnoticed (?) until now, albeit helpfully; 2) straight-forward enough to describe plainly (and quite obvious once noticed and understood), and which; 3) can be shown (even at high-level) to be the likely cause of all scientific-anomaly — in a manner consistent with Kuhn's original illuminatory retrospective "the structure of scientific revolutions" — specifically the correlation between paradigms which lack "common measures" (being therefore incommensurable), and (the prevalence, indeed inevitability of) scientific-anomalies In addition to Kuhn, I'll invoke:- 1) Douglas Hofstadter's "Surfaces & Essences"; 2) the (presumably uncontroversial) axiom that "our universe is fractally self-similar", and; 3) several decades of personal software-engineering experience, which I've since turned outward, to the structure of science & scientific artefacts, including the structure of scientific knowledge Right ok... Consider, the cause of all scientific-anomaly then, (or perhaps the need for metascience!), is that: 1) while cognition is analogical (Hofstadter, "Surfaces & Essences"), and; 2) our universe is fractally self-similar (which can trivially be shown to be high-dimensionally representable by analogical-representation, defined below); 3) almost all of the "primary artefacts" of the scientific-endeavour (writ-large, throughout history, to the present day), are of non-analogical form -- (mostly due to mutually irreconcilable special-domain details of our isolated scientific-disciplines) > definition of analogical-representation & summary to follow Ok, so... 1/2