May 20 Notes
From Santa Fe Institute Events Wiki
Changing the Paradigm
- Current shortcomings of science as a whole
- Methodology
- Meta-issues
- Language
- lack of good and shared LEXICON slows understanding and progress:
- what is a "gene"?
- "genome" vs "chromosome"
- is it "noise", "randomness", "heterogeneity", "diversity"?
- METAPHORS affect what actions are taken and what systems are developed
- "war on cancer" leads to "military industrial complex" for cancer
- POLITICAL CORRECTNESS stiffles progress
- the "e" word
- PARADIGMS proscribe and limit what futures are possible
- treatment of disease vs. promotion of health
- taking evolution seriously means looking at the context that evolved for protection and promotion of cancer
- treatment of disease vs. promotion of health
- lack of good and shared LEXICON slows understanding and progress:
- Technology effects
- hammers & nails
- diff between engineered systems and evolved systems
- parodies belie truth: "how biologists learn to fix a radio"; "frog legs"
- scientists are especially susceptible
- speed of technological change
- Financial & political factors
- Fadism (technological, ideological, novelty)
- Pipeline effects
- Healthcare-industrial-governmental complex
- Language
- Lessons from other paradigm shifts
- what are closest examples?
- how the existing paradigm reacts to attack
- working within the system vs. outside and on the margins
- providing a better alternative (or hope thereof) is important
- Spreading the word
- Ideas for catalyzing change
- Who's missing from this forum?