‘Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings’
Written on January 15, 2008
By a roundabout way I came across this book: Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality
Harvard University Press page & excerpt
In an interview Wimsatt says:
“Complex systems are messy …And human beings make errors trying to understand them. That’s OK. The goal should not be to eliminate errors, but to recognize and metabolize them.”
That is because, Wimsatt explains, “humans and organisms are engineered to be error-tolerant but still reliable. We learn, and re-engineer to do better. Evolved systems are complex and chaotic, but nonetheless ordered and robust.”
Filed in: philosophy of mind,reality.
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