The same thesis you have given is playing out throughout philosophy of psychiatry right now for the last 13 years. There is a heated battle between the linear, efficient-cause, billiard-ball camp who appear stuck in a Newtonian universe. And then there are the nonlinear dynamical systems theorists (e.g. enactivism) trying to force us to think in terms of emergent constraints (absences as causes), phase transitions and downward causation. I believe science needs to bring back formal and final cause or else both camps will be unable to process anything that you're saying here.
Right. They are unable to process what is said here. Or, more precisely, they refuse to do so because this would put their worldview upside-down. I nurture no illusion to see them acquiring this ability anytime soon. But I'm also quite confident that, when it comes to answer the deeper existential questions (consciousness, etc.) all those theories nowadays so in fashion (e.g., enactivism) will lead nowhere. This will be a topic of one of the next posts. Stay tuned. ;)
The same thesis you have given is playing out throughout philosophy of psychiatry right now for the last 13 years. There is a heated battle between the linear, efficient-cause, billiard-ball camp who appear stuck in a Newtonian universe. And then there are the nonlinear dynamical systems theorists (e.g. enactivism) trying to force us to think in terms of emergent constraints (absences as causes), phase transitions and downward causation. I believe science needs to bring back formal and final cause or else both camps will be unable to process anything that you're saying here.
Right. They are unable to process what is said here. Or, more precisely, they refuse to do so because this would put their worldview upside-down. I nurture no illusion to see them acquiring this ability anytime soon. But I'm also quite confident that, when it comes to answer the deeper existential questions (consciousness, etc.) all those theories nowadays so in fashion (e.g., enactivism) will lead nowhere. This will be a topic of one of the next posts. Stay tuned. ;)