The Constraint of Physiology

With physiology, we've got no damn choice. We've just inherited millions of years of evolution. That thing isn't out there any more than the sensory neuron firing or the fear of the hardness - it's just a way of holding the world. And that's a function of our evolutionary process. It might have been different had we evolved differently. But we thought we can change how we hold the world. There is an imbridgable gap between our idea and how the world is. So we shouldn't be surprised then that no scientific theory is safe from revision. Well, of course it isn't. We can't ever arrive. Back to Mail Online home. Back to the page