Power law
Power law allows to connect entropy and information to basic social concepts. Continue Reading
God
What saturates formal democracy?
Contrary to the general impression, it is not so difficult to explain God’s emergence and function in human history. We can easily disregard God as a pre-scientific concept, but we cannot accept God’s role in almost any society. Even if… Continue Reading
Reductionism as religion
If for every system there is an element that does not belong to the system, but at the same time the system does not exist without that element, then the hope of reductionism is moot. There are many other ways… Continue Reading
Invisible hand
Market is an emergent property of a complex system of values being there for the sake of exchange. Continue Reading
Limitations of science; argument for dualism
In today’s society, science tends to be the only proper heuristic method of explaining reality. If a particular assertion cannot be falsified, then the object of that assertion cannot be proven to exist. According to this view, there is only… Continue Reading
The Role of Castes in Evolution
Casts are beneficial if understood conservatively. Unlimited choice is like cancer. Continue Reading
Emergence upgraded
It is not a heresy any more to use quantum mechanics concepts in neuroscience, humanities and philosophy. Emergence, wave function, entanglement work. Continue Reading
Against Scientism
I find myself more and more baffled by a contemporary belief that science and scientific method promises the only correct answer about the reality we, humans, live in. Not only that belief in science as the only right machinery to… Continue Reading
The Price of the Light
A close friend of mine and a brother, Peter, recently came up with peculiarity of Slovenian language that differentiates light as a source of light and light as a product of that source. »Luč« in Slovenian denotes the source only… Continue Reading
More is less in science and climatology
The recent discovery published in BioScience by a group of scientists seems to add evidence for actions to be taken to prevent human influence on global warming. The article elaborates evidence that reservoirs created by dams are an important source of… Continue Reading