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Why Should Natural Principles Be Simple?
Philosophia ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-16 , DOI: 10.1007/s11406-021-00359-x
Arturo Tozzi 1
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One of the criteria to a strong principle in natural sciences is simplicity. The conventional view holds that the world is provided with natural laws that must be simple. This common-sense approach is a modern rewording of the medieval philosophical/theological concept of the Multiple arising from (and generated by) the One. Humans need to pursue unifying frameworks, classificatory criteria and theories of everything. Still, the fact that our cognitive abilities tend towards simplification and groupings does not necessarily entail that this is the way the world works. Here we ask: what if singularity does not pave the way to multiplicity? How will we be sure if the Ockham’s razor holds in real life? We will show in the sequel that the propensity to reduce to simplicity the relationships among the events leads to misleading interpretations of scientific issues. We are not going to take a full sceptic turn: we will engage in active outreach, suggesting examples from biology and physics to demonstrate how a novel methodological antiunitary approach might help to improve our scientific attitude towards world affairs. We will provide examples from aggregation of SARS-Cov-2 particles, unclassified extinct creatures, pathological brain stiffness. Further, we will describe how antiunitary strategies, plagiarising medieval concepts from William od Ockham and Gregory of Rimini, help to explain novel relational approaches to quantum mechanics and the epistemological role of our mind in building the real world.



中文翻译:

为什么自然原则应该简单?

自然科学中强原则的标准之一是简单性。传统观点认为,世界具有必须简单的自然法则。这种常识性的方法是对中世纪哲学/神学概念的现代重新措辞,多重性源于(并产生于)一。人类需要追求统一的框架、分类标准和万物理论。尽管如此,我们的认知能力倾向于简化和分组这一事实并不一定意味着这就是世界的运作方式。在这里我们问:如果奇点不能为多样性铺平道路怎么办?我们如何确定奥卡姆剃刀是否适用于现实生活?我们将在续集中表明,将事件之间的关系简化为简单的倾向会导致对科学问题的误导性解释。我们不会完全怀疑:我们将进行积极的宣传,提出生物学和物理学的例子,以展示一种新的方法论的反统一方法如何有助于提高我们对世界事务的科学态度。我们将提供来自 SARS-Cov-2 粒子聚集、未分类的灭绝生物、病理性脑僵硬的例子。此外,我们将描述反统一策略如何从威廉奥卡姆和里米尼的格雷戈里剽窃中世纪概念,

更新日期:2021-04-16
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