Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
Very Bad Wizards
Is There a More Refined Understanding of Nature?
Ra: I think he's like, maybe the best we can evolve towards is one of many incommensurable theories that will make as much sense of this external reality as it's possible for us to make. There might be 30 equally refined ways of understanding nature and they'll all have trade offs. They won't be interpretable from one paradime to another. And that's just like that. That's the best we can do.
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