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“A Systems Paradigm”
Ken Matusow
For over five hundred years the world has collectively lived in the Age of Science. The scientific paradigm holds that complex systems may be best understood by logically...
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“How the Nazis Split Modern Physics, and How It Can Be Reunified”
Alan Kadin
Everyone knows that the Nazis hated Einstein and relativity. I argue that this hostility had a profound influence on the development of quantum mechanics in the 1930s, and...
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“Table For Three”
Gary Simpson
Three scientists walk into a cafe.
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“The Zeroth Law of Science”
josh mitteldorf
Our present-day science is interested in discovering laws that describe the behavior of our universe. But there is a presumption implicit in our methodology: that there are such...
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“How could science have emerged differently, in order to have solved open basic enigmas for humankind today?”
Olav Drageset
This essay discusses how science could have emerged in order to solve our basic enigmas of life and death, matter and mind. A reason for the shortcoming of...
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“The Spear and The Shield: Science and Peer Review”
Erickson Tjoa
In this Essay I would like to argue that if science is to keep up with the existing format of peer-review as a quality control, it is perhaps...
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“How do we get where we need to go?”
Jesse Parent
In this competition, we invite creative and thought-provoking essays addressing science itself by considering the questions: To what degree is the science we have today necessarily the way...
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“Three Flukes Made Modern Science Possible”
Roger Schlafly
Science was greatly advanced by three factors that did not have to happen: Greek Mathematics, ancient Astronomy, and medieval Christianity. Without these, we might never have discovered the...
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“Objective Reality, Power of Curiosity, Box of Prejudice”
Azadeh Maleknejad
Improving our objective understanding of reality is one of the core goals of science. This essay will discuss three main obstacles that impede this scientific progress and their...
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“What could a science free of prejudice and bigotry have looked like? How could the process of science be better?”
Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta
A science free of prejudice and bigotry would be one that recognizes these realities and works actively to minimize them. It would be a scientific community where diversity...
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“Moving the World: Dynamics & Information”
Scott Schwartz
This article examines the history of European knowledge production back to medieval Scholasticism. My focus is on the emergence of dynamics (the motions and forces of bodies) as...
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“Unshackling Science: Reimagining the Evolution and Future of Scientific Inquiry”
Joel Christoph
This abstract presents an essay that explores the intriguing possibilities of how science could have developed differently under alternate historical circumstances, cultural contexts, or methods of inquiry. By...
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“open-minded science benefits from questioning taboos”
Alex Maier
The human tendency to create taboos extends to the realm of science. Some of these taboos, such as the insistence on logical coherence, seem indispensable. Others, such as...
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“From Reification to Reintegration”
Colin LaClair
To bite or not to bite the hands that feed? Entropy
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“Scientia Alternatus”
Tariq Khan
A short essay is presented discussing how human science could have proceeded differently. The author presents questions in an informal style asking the reader to consider the many...
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“Towards convivial science”
Sylvia Wenmackers
Welcome to our tour of the science factory. Above the entrance, you see our century-old motto: ‘publish or perish’. It reminds our knowledge workers to produce a steady...
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“The triptych of physics”
Alice Boldrin
Today's physics is in a curious position. On one hand, modern physical theories show an unprecedented predictive power and precision, and are able to deal with processes ranging...
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“How to avoid data driven science which is done in lieu of actual thought experiment models ”
Andrew Beckwith
In the aftermath of the stunning LIGO success using Post Newtonian approximations to obtain GW data to confirm the existence of GW, physics has made only incremental progress...
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“Of Senses and Sciences”
Jenny Wagner
The best-laid schemes of mice and men // Go oft awry, // And leave us nothing but grief and pain, // For promised joy! – Robert Burns (1785)...
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“Self-Appropriation and Respect within a Sustainable Moral Scientific Community”
Alexander McCall
The ethical challenges facing science have taken on added exigency in the 21st century, posing both external and internal threats to the continued progress and viability of the...
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“Seeing Physics from Outside the Silos”
Jonathan J. Dickau
The physical sciences have become fragmented, after years of division of labor and specialization, to a point where highly-trained professionals in close proximity often have very little understanding...
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“From Alexandria and Aristotle to AI, how science could be different”
Georgina Woodward
‘Science’ here means Natural philosophy We lament the potential loss of general ancient knowledge, not just works relevant to science. Considering in particular the uncertain history of demise...
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“Reinventing Scientific Journals through Open Science Practices and Self-Publication”
Matheus Lobo
The current landscape of scientific publishing calls for a disruption between the publication of scientific articles and quality control agencies. In this essay, we propose the development of...
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“Alternative Histories for the Emergence of Science”
Laurence Hitterdale
The question is whether science would be substantially different had it emerged in a cultural context other than that of early modern Europe. The answer is that science...
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“My Electrons Are Spinning”
Lachlan Cresswell
Abstract for ‘My Electrons are Spinning’ We listen in to a conversation between two scientists at the Rovelli-Smolin Institute for Quantum Gravity. The loop quantum gravity researcher mentions...
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“Beatification of science”
Mohit Das
The essay deals with about improvement and betterment of sciences. It shows how science can change the society and vice versa....
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“Exploring Scientific Discovery and Innovation: Applying Principles for an Equitable and Effective Future”
Victor Babaniyi
This essay examines the interplay between mathematics and physics and their impact on scientific advancement. It explores the debate of whether mathematics preceded physics and the potential of...
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“Causally Complete Science for the Reason-Based Society”
Andrei Kirilyuk
Modern fundamental science tends to avoid the principle of physical causality and realism, replacing it with heuristically postulated and separated mathematical constructions that impose their own rules before...
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“The Expansion of Physics by Deconstruction of Metaphysics”
Arved Hübler
A need is seen to extend physics beyond its previous realm of knowledge and to remove the limitations imposed by metaphysics to do so. In order to make...
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“Towards the Holistic Science: Reinstating Philosophy of Research”
Brajesh Mishra
How could science be different? The question reverberates an intent to get rid of an innate tendency to be contented with what science has deciphered so far about...
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“The Coming Age Of Epiphanies”
Stefan Weckbach
For answering the question about how science could be different, it at first needs an outline about what science is doing and why it is at all possible....
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“An Essay Fitting the Requirements of this Competition In the Form of a Poem”
Charles St Pierre
Science has contributed enormously to the destruction of Nature. Science must assume its responsibility for this, and turn itself to mitigating and reversing this damage, at least to...
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“The Brain in a Plat and the Fading Dream of Quantum Realism: Science at a Transformative Crossroads”
Neil Bates
The current "Western" scientific paradigm has been criticized as "Galileo's error": the idea that reality can be described in the manner of points in motion and similar notions...
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“Chronicles from a Simulated Science”
Daniele Corradetti
In this brief historical essay from our dystopic future we describe the problems of contemporary science and their logical consequences once the current scientific system will be integrated...
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“Future Science, Future Scientist: Reconnecting with the Reflective and Contemplative Modes of Being”
Philip Goyal
Sophisticated abstract thought is perhaps humanity’s greatest asset, and language its most important technology. But abstract thought begs an ever-present question: to what extent does the content and...
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“New Ideas for Science”
Ian Brinkley
Human beings work with ideas. For various reasons, humans categorize these ideas in different ways. When an idea is categorized in a certain way, a corresponding attitude towards...
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“Is Truth the Daughter of Time?”
Giovanni Prisinzano
The essay compares the history of science with its fundamental achievements and truths. It is shown, by referring to some exemplary cases, that the former could be different,...
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“The Progress of the Basic Science can be also Outside of Universities”
Janko Kokošar
Publishing on arXiv for people outside universities is practically impossible. But the probability that progress in basic science occurs outside the university is not negligible. This article presents...
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“Contours of a Human Science”
Abhijnan Rej
The goal of this essay is to probe how science could have been different—and how it still can be! —by looking at if and how a general science...
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“Science in Search of Neutral Ground”
Michael Smith
When considering an alternative path that science could or should have taken, we are faced with the dilemma of deciding which formative assumptions would need to change. In...
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“Diferently Inclusive Science”
cristi marcovici
What is the experience ,of learning , or of a scientist considering the question with a broad perspective , ideas are presented here excluding an organized point of...
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“The Dawn of New Science”
Adam Wesołowski
It is not diffificult to argue that what we are seeing in the world around us is a Technological Revolution. People living in 2023 are blessed to be...
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“A tool for helping science find the optimal path toward the truth: falsification trees”
Kelvin McQueen
How do we know whether a given scientific theory has been proven false? This essay breaks down the logic of falsification and explains why theory falsification is always...
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“Framework for Humanizing Science”
Oliver Wang
The limitation and outcome of science are discussed from philosophical and anthropological perspective. A metaphysical framework is proposed for humanizing science. The concept of a universal set of...
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“Science: A Numeric or Non-Numeric Mathematical Process of Thinking ”
Phillip Kuhn
An alternative idea of science is presented where the most widely recognized concept of Mathematics as solely inclusive of numbers is challenged. Instead, math is characterized as a...
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“Resolving Reality”
Dan Tiberiu Costin
The fundamental reason we engage in scientific research touches upon our innermost nature as conscious beings as we strive to refine our picture of reality. As society evolves...
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“Could Science Be Different and Improved? Yes. One Specific Proposal.”
John Crowell
Science “as it is“ has worked well on building useful knowledge of observable, sequential processing in the physical world that scientists can time, measure and calculate. However, current...
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“Science & The Unknowable”
Lee Havens
Premature or excessive demands of the scientific method that all hypotheses be measurable and verifiable before extrapolating from those hypotheses may unnecessarily retard scientific progress. Many practical benefits...
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“Bot Bridges”
Jos Hoebe
The question of how science can be different can be understood as: different from how 'it' is now. Based on that understanding, the following story has emerged as...
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“A Robust Community-Based Credit System to Enhance Peer Review in Scientific Research”
Wanpeng Tan
Using an analogy with the capitalist economy, we examine the issues within modern basic science research as innovation drives both evolutionary cycles of the economy and research. In...
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“The Name of the arXiv: when too much zeal is an obstacle to science”
Donatello Dolce
How far is the boundary of scientific freedom today? How much is the scientific debate biased by academic gurus and corporate interests? Are there unspeakable hypotheses and established...
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“How could Science be Different”
SONALI SENGUPTA
Science means “to know” , which would extend to knowing about physical nature with us humans as observers and physical nature the object of observation. The following have...
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“Efficient funding produces better science”
Amitabha Lahiri
Governments spend billions in funding research in basic sciences, but no one agrees on what is the best way to distribute the money. Grading and ranking grant proposals...
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“Proposal for an ontological view of the Universe”
Valerie Burks
How could science be different? Could genuinely new ideas come from a non-STEM discipline? Is this a way in which science might become different? This essay offers a...
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“Schisms Beyond Arithmetick: how science's past might be its future”
Rick Searle
We live in a period of epistemological crisis that echoes the one that gave rise to modern science. This essay looks at the early modern crisis of knowledge,...
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“There really is no such a thing as Science. There are only scientists”
Klaas Landsman
In this essay I explore the possible influence of Chinese and African thought on modern science, especially on mathematics and physics. This done by retracing the roots of...
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“Let Clues be Clues: On building better fundamental theories.”
Gavin Rowland
A number of recent books have described theoretical physics as an area that has lost its way. Meanwhile cosmology has been delivering a wealth of data, and has...
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“The Broad Path”
David Rideout
Science, as we currently conceive it, is a relatively narrow enterprise, utilizing a rather narrow set of abilities of a narrow slice of the world population. I propose...
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“The inevitability of our current approach to science and the search for the simplest perspective to comprehend nature ”
Jose Luis Perez Velazquez
In this essay we will mainly address why science is the way it is and why it could not have been any other way (in my opinion), and...
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“Two pillars for science to stand on”
Evgeny Bobrov
Science as a profession places contradictory expectations on scientists, both regarding the nature of knowledge generation and as a practice. In the current system, scientists need to be...
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“Age of Knowledge ”
Steven Andresen
Join me as I have an interactive discussion with AI, as we explore its response to this year's essay themes and new scientific concepts. We'll delve into the...
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“Softening Hard Science”
Dan Bruiger
“Hard” science could adopt some of the self-questioning exemplified in social science and an organismic view of the world implicit in biology. It could scrutinize assumptions and concepts...
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“Could Science be Different?”
Charis Anastopoulos
We argue that a science that is fundamentally different from ours must be based on domains of knowledge other than physics. The reason is that any physics-based science...
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“Bonobo Science”
Teresa E Reinhard
The group dynamics of bonobos, a species of apes that is genetically one of our closest relatives, is predominantly cooperative and peaceful. The reason for this behavior can...
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“No Standstill in Fundamental Science”
Eckard Blumschein
I claim that mankind gets increasingly responsible for itself, mainly due to accelerating predominantly quantitative growth in science and technology. Accordingly, some very foundations of science deserve an...
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“Quantum theory could have been different, relativity could have been different”
TEJINDER SINGH
It is said that the next great advance in fundamental physics will be precipitated by a breakthrough experiment which disagrees with the current theoretical framework. We argue against...
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“Is AI with Emerging Qualities Making a Difference in Science?”
Wilhelmus de Wilde
The scientific world is going to be different; it is not a question but a fact. The difference lies in the assistance from complex systems with Artificial Intelligence...
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“Science: Invariance under interchange of major historical developments”
Dharam Ahluwalia
I suggest that science should be invariant under interchange of the time ordering of major historical developments.
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“Alien Physics. The Interview.”
Peter Jackson
Some species are studied by many civilizations of higher intelligence, to learn and to conserve if needed. The views and assistance of the most advanced species in the...
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“How could science be different?”
Lorraine Ford
Three questions: “Why is the universe moving?”, “What exists?”, and “Can everything that exists be measured?” are discussed, illustrating the limitations of the old dogmas of physics.
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“Idealization and Isolability: Alternatives to the Machine Paradigm”
Ben De Bari
The successes of physics are often in the form of invariance principles, which characterize many disparate phenomena independently of context, and are derived by studying isolable systems. Such...
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“How Could Science Move Forward With Benevolence?”
Achal Vinod
Science has greatly improved our lives by making them more convenient and efficient with innovations such as one-day deliveries, instant messaging, quick access to content, and news through...
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“From an Unknowable to a Knowable Ontology of the Universe ”
Caryl Browne
A paradigm provides the questions for what should be asked, what phenomena should be observed, and how the observations are to be interpreted. Within our current paradigm it...
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“The unkown scientist”
Alaya Kouki
Developing science requires new visions and methods. One of them is mathematical forcing equations and formulae. The most we made barriers to science such as fees publication, be...
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“Breaking Through the Anomaly Bottleneck: Can Science Become Curiouser and Curiouser?”
Kevin Knuth
This essay considers the influence of current scientific theory on the interpretation of extraordinary data relevant to anomalies, which are phenomena that cannot be explained by current theory....
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“Humanity in transition, Science needs to lead.”
Michael Horner
Humanity is in transition. Science needs to guide civilization by articulating a vision of reality and humanities role within it. The practices of the past are now understood...
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“What if we knew 123 yeas ago what we know now?”
John Wsol
What if we knew 123 years ago what we know now? Had Albert Einstein published his Special Relativity before the Michelson-Morley experiment and if Helium superfluid were already...
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“How could science be different?”
Grigol Asatiani
Physics vs Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Aliens and parallel universe/s, freedom in the Universe, Gödel theorem and incompleteness, “happy” end, Two emperors, infinite consciousness, Philosophy and God.
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“Heuristic Challenges for Modelling Nature”
Donald Palmer
Over the last several centuries, science has discovered objects in the world along a continuum of scale. In one direction, we have found planets and stars, galaxies, and...
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“FOREVER CHALLENGED: MODELING COSMIC PROCESSSES”
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri
Classical physics of Newton and Maxwell have been serving us continuously and quantitatively since the beginning within their defined domains, without any major controversies. In contrast, the highly...
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“Back to the Ivory Tower”
Philipp Strasberg
The picture of the truth-seeking scientists sitting alone in their ivory towers is often used negatively. Instead, science is supposed to drive society forward, to create impact, provide...
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“Can Science be different? Maths says "NO'”
Jose P Koshy
A logical analysis of what science is, how and why it emerged, how it evolved, its philosophy, its institutionalization, etc. reveals that 'arithmetic' has a role in each...
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“The Singularity of Science”
Philip Gibbs
How unique is mathematics, physics and broader science? If physics is unique then where does it come from and how is it reflected in the diversity of culture?...
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“Mass-Producing the Mistake Minimizer”
Marco Giancotti
Science is a technology for the mind. What is it for, and who should be allowed to wield it? Science communication, open exposition problems, and our way forward.
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“How might science be different in the future?”
Milen Velev
In its future development science will most probably confront a number of obstacles and limitations of various kinds. In the present essay these limitations are described and classified...
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“Science Without Discovery”
Benjamin Tolkin
There is a pervasive idea that scientific advancement consists of "discovery," but that doesn't need to be how we conceptualize science. In this essay, I analyze the implications...
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“The Accumulation of Understanding”
Yaakov Fein
On the surface, the world we inhabit is a messy and chaotic place. It is a bit like a busy intersection in Kathmandu: a foreigner’s first impression will...
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“Science and Experience, or Science with a Human Face”
Attay Kremer
Modern science has found itself detached from common experience. It presents with a world view foreign to the one we encounter in our day to day lives, full...
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“Between understanding and control: Science as a cultural product”
Flavio Del Santo
Since the early days of humankind, people have been asking questions about Nature of two kinds: why did that happen? And how can that be used? In a...
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“Global Externalities and a New Science”
James Hoover
We must pursue a new and more independent version of science to counter the path we have accepted, a path that endangers the future of our world. The...
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“Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Scientific Collaboration?”
Edward Kneller
Collaboration is essential to science, yet collaboration across scientific communities is hindered by prejudice and miscommunication, which disproportionately affect scientists from disadvantaged and less-established communities. To illustrate these...
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“Return of the magi”
Daniel Terno
The modern world has been shaped by the progress of natural sciences and their interplay with mathematics. There have been at least three models of such development, and...
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“Science can be more efficient if we use classical analogues of models for calculating constants and explaining experiments”
Vladimir Fedorov
Using the classical explanation of the origin of Planck's constant, the fine structure constant and the gravitational coefficient, leads to new laws of classical mechanics for toroidal and...
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“Science and its necessary slowdown”
Giacomo Alessiani
In a difficult context like today's, a basic analysis of the problems of science. Starting from the moral sense of antiquity, passing through Galileo, up to the present...
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“A New Vision for Science: Balancing Stakeholders and Fostering Collaboration ”
Marat Smirnov
This essay presents a critical response to the current scientific landscape, which is characterized by the influence of various stakeholders, leading to an unsustainable, ineffective, and expensive model...
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“Is Change All We Can Know?”
David Jewson
There is no doubt that science is of enormous value to all humanity. But what if the foundations of science are mistaken? How much more could be achieved...
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“Two Scientific Wolves”
Logan Chipkin
Inside science, there are two wolves. On the one hand, it is a process by which objective truths about the physical world are discovered. On the other hand,...
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“Chips and Science: Holistic Binary Integration and Processing Inspired by the Chinese Figures of Fuxi”
Brian Ji
This article presents an alternative binary scheme for the statistical inference of variability. The discovery of binary integers in 1703 by Leibniz, co-inventor of Calculus, contributed to the...
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“How could science be different? Ask a feminist!”
Francesca Vidotto
It is possible for science to be different? Science has already changed, as new perspective on it opened to us. In this essay I consider the perspective accessible...
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“Designing a Physics Without Makeshift Explanations”
Paul Klevgard
This essay makes a number of points. That mathematics is not foundational to physics; instead, it is one’s view of what is physically real that has primacy. That...
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“How to Include Qualia in Science”
Paul Merriam
How can science accommodate qualia? This essay gives the beginning of one way forward. The main idea is to put the actual qualia into sentences. It's shown that,...
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“21st Century Pythagorean Mathematics - A Way Forward”
Nicola Graves-Gregory
A 21st century renaissance of Pythagorean mathematics, those things which have been learned through the wisdom of love, is possible. This could be part of a renaissance of...
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“Being open mind in Science between orthodoxy and crackpottery: Einsteinian vision and the example of the black hole information paradox”
Christian Corda
Like all other human activities, Science is also strongly influenced by "politics", lobbies and economic interests. This does not scandalize us or make us unworthy, as it is...
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“How to Unsplit the World: Quantum mechanics, cognitive science, and the subject-object divide”
Amanda Gefter
The distinction between subject and object is so baked into the foundations of modern science that it’s rarely questioned. But the subject-object divide has a history. It was...
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“How could science be different?”
Eva Deli
A government-administered grant system provides the lion's share of funds for scientific research. Nevertheless, generous financial support is a double-edged sword. It gave rise to a robust scientific...
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“The Soul of Science”
Ning Wang
This essay explores the importance of expressing science in mathematics as a fundamental aspect of scientific progress throughout history. However, the essay also discusses different and ever-changing science...
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“More diversity and creativity for a different science”
NADJA MAGALHAES
The question on how science could be different is addressed considering the interplay between science and mathematics under a historical background. Aspects that affect the creation and development...
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“A different evolution of Science”
Arundhati Dasgupta
In this essay, we examine the evolution of science as controlled by `artificial selection'. We describe two concrete ideas which we could be focusing on, in an alternate...
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“How could science be better? ”
Alexsander Maltsev
The article analyzes the errors created by the idealization of mathematics and the inertia of classical physics. The reasons for the emergence of an erroneous opinion are considered....
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“The geometry of counterfactual science.”
Ines Samengo
There are many ways in which science could be different. Had we done something different in the past, we would now have a different science, perhaps a better...
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“Nature as an Infinite Kaleidoscope and the Limits of Science”
Andrea Palessandro
I argue that science, as currently understood, is only one of a potentially infinite number of “modes of understanding” of the world. Not every attribute of the universe,...
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“How could science be different?”
Jiří Šrajer
A few questions: Could dolphins (or some dolphin-like creatures), that have no ability to write, achieve something that may be called science? What would our math look like,...
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“The laws of nature deserve their own category in science alongside physics, chemistry, biology ... ”
Malcolm Macleod
I will explore the following essay topics through the prism of a mathematical universe, the premise being that our universe in its entirety, down to the Planck level,...
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“Interstitial Realism: Science in Perspective”
Jochen Szangolies
Science, and fundamental science especially, has been widely diagnosed to be in crisis. Methods that seemingly used to guarantee perpetual progress now appear to have ground to a...
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