SCIENCE'S FIRST MISTAKE/ DELUSIONS IN PURSUIT OF THEORY

Taking examples from across the natural and social sciences, this ambitious book examines the deep-seated assumptions that underpin the discovery of knowledge, and claims that all scientific methods are delusions in pursuit of theory. Using Systems Theory, in part icular the concept of self-reference, the book argues that the process of observing tricks the human mind into developing a self-con sistent description of itself/ and a belief in the certainty of a causal 'reality'. Our theories and ways of thinking about the worl d around ...[Read more]