F9: Virtual Reality
IX) The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions
should actually point to the F9=past that has a future basic human
substance.
But of science#2's course no, Kuhn addresses the basics a science#2 paradigm and thus side-tracks from
the bottleneck to
science#3: Why should a paradigm change be called a revolution? What are the functions of scientific
revolutions in the
development of science?
How about asking that question about yourself?
A scientific revolution is a non-cumulative developmental episode in which an older paradigm
is replaced in whole or in part by an
incompatible new one . A scientific#2 revolution that results in paradigm change is analogous to
a political revolution. Political
revolutions begin with a growing sense by members of the community that existing institutions have ceased
adequately to meet the
problems posed by an environment that they have in part created. The dissatisfaction with existing
institutions is generally
restricted to a segment of the political community. Political revolutions aim to change political
institutions in ways that those
institutions themselves prohibit. As crisis deepens,
individuals commit themselves to some concrete proposal for the reconstruction
of society in a new institutional framework
. Competing camps and parties form. One camp seeks to defend the old institutional
constellation. One (or more) camps seek to institute a new political order. As polarization occurs,
political recourse fails. Parties to a
revolutionary conflict finally resort to the techniques of mass persuasion with
Virtual Reality
soap opera such as "Big Brother...is
watching you through the eye of polical correctness" presented as a c3-man-made C3-substitute
which is denounced as subjectivity
and/or as too complicated...
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