
229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?
The Michael Shermer Show
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What Is the Progress in Science?
Everything in the natural world is interconnected. In order to really understand any phenomenon we would have to understand all its connections, including to ourselves and our apparatus. And this, of course, is not possible, because if there are these myriad connections, you cannot take into account all of them - especially den in a theoretical model. So what we do in science is we say that, yes, everything is interconnected, but some of these connections are more important than others. And then in a second approximation, i will take into account more inter connections, therefore my theory will be more accurate. We don't know which catastrophe will happen exactly when and where. But qualitatively, we can predict the things
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