What can we learn when people deceive? There are all kinds of deception: from lying, duplicity, and disguises, to propaganda, disinformation, and deep fakes. Self-deception, too, offers insight. Why would evolution select for deceiving ourselves?
Deception pervades all life, up and down the phylogenetic tree. Deceptions have a “purpose” – the well-being, often the survival, of the deceiver. But deceptions need not be done “on purpose”. In the tool-kit of evolution, what is the workload of deception?
Biologists work in different worlds than do physicists, separated by vast orders of magnitude, numbers of variables, and levels of complexity. Does the process of Breakthroughs by biologists differ from the process of Breakthroughs by physicists?
The nature of scientific Breakthroughs is one approach; the process of scientific Breakthroughs is quite another. When physicists reflect on how they do physics, when physicists review the history of physics, what are the ways in which Breakthroughs occur?
Scientific Breakthroughs are discoveries or theories that are milestones and touchstones, signposts and short-cuts, surprises and revelations. How to get at the nature or essence of the Breakthrough process?
To explore scientific Breakthroughs is to find theories or discoveries that challenge conventional wisdom, change patterns of thought, provide novel frameworks for research. What is the deep essence or general nature of scientific breakthroughs?
The mysteries of life constitute the science of biology. But solving biological mysteries often require Breakthroughs: new, even radical ways of thinking that disrupt current paradigms.
Science explores how the world works. Breakthroughs drive science, challenging conventional wisdom, changing ways of thinking. Physics is foundational. What are Breakthroughs in Physics? What characterizes Breakthroughs in Physics?
Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire and creatively disruptive: realities inaccessible to science, independent mental, mind in the cosmos, science and theology, even design arguments for God.
Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire, was one of the most inventive thinkers of our age: discovering new mathematics, challenging fundamental physics, colonizing space, searching for signatures of alien civilizations, imagining the far future of intelligence.
Science explores how the world works. Breakthroughs drive science, challenging conventional wisdom, changing ways of thinking. What are Breakthroughs in science?
Art brings pleasure, but is art also more? Can the arts be sources of understanding? What is art’s potential? Will art become a subset of science? Or can art see what science cannot? Where can art take us?