Well, this is something, that being a Biology person from my undergrad days always comes up near and dear to my heart when I think about the philosophy of Science. What is the first science? What discipline does every other discipline emerge from? I’m thinking it’s biology, if only because before humanity started looking to the stars and trying to find why fire is hot, we needed to understand our own bodies, the ecology of our environment so we could gather food, the list goes on. This wasn’t always as formal (that should be obvious), but in some manner this knowledge did become systematized.
Last week, I caught this article in Wired, where Robert Lanza proposes a biocentric view of the universe – one where the observer has actually made the universe that is being observed. It makes sense at a deeper philosophical level, but there are a few people who obviously don’t agree. These other articles (Williams – Giacentric Fallacy, McCarthy – Myth of the Self Made Universe) are not directly related to the Lanza work, but might provide some interesting background as to what the different sides have to say about all this.
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