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Old 11-25-2005, 04:53 PM
Piers Piers is offline
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Default Re: On Hume and order in nature

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Like I asked Chez, what have you ever experienced that would lead you to think that the Universe is truly chaotic?

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I mean "order" as in, "abides by physical laws/rules".

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It’s more that I do not think the universe is ordered. By this I mean that no set of physical laws/rules that humans or their agents can construct could completely describe the universe.

It is just human arrogance that makes people believe that ‘an ordered’ universe should be the default.

Scientific progress has followed the cycle of consistently obsolescing previous scientific beliefs with new ones. I think this is no coincidence but instead reflects the real situation, in that any scientific belief we propose has the potential to be obsoleted.

By their very nature human constructed laws must be in some sense finite. Nothing about the universe suggests such a finite nature to me.
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