I agree that the closure of the feedback loop between peeking and poking (experimentation) is the root of science. Of course, perhaps that's not much of a statement _if_ that's the root of everything, as maybe the autopoiesis guys might claim.
An interesting question is what would the _medium_ look like for a language-less science? Can we imagine an alternative reality where some form video sprouted from cave paintings, through comic strips, to movies, without written language? Nicholas Thompson wrote at 04/22/2013 09:41 AM: > A really interesting exchange. It feeds into my conversation with my Peirce > Mentor about science being at its root experimentation and experimentation > being, at its root, poking the world with a stick. ("It walks like a duck, > it quacks like a duck. Does it squawk like a duck? [poke!] Yes. It's a > duck!") I render this in language, but the whole thing could be done > without language at all, unless one is one of those people who insists that > all thought is in language. -- =><= glen e. p. ropella Broadcast dead revolution don't pay ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com