(2012-04-05) Popper Clouds And Clocks

Peter Kaminski pointed me at Karl Popper's "OfCloudAndClocks", an Arthur Holly Compton Memorial Lecture from 1966.

Peter says: *he frames a typology for systems, running in a continuum from Clouds (irreducible, chaotic) to Clocks (reducible, predictable)... It's connected to:

• Arthur Compton
  • who connects to the Compton Effect
• Karl Popper
  • who connects to Falsifiability
    • which apparently connects to Fallibilism [assertion]
      • since Wikipedia/Karl_Popper says "falsifiability resembles Charles S Peirce's nineteenth century fallibilism. In Of Clocks and Clouds (1966), Popper remarked that he wished he had known of Peirce's work earlier" [fact check]
• Systems Theory
• Dave Snowden's Cynefin
• Reductionism vs. Holism, and
• "Breaking Things Down to Particles Blinds Scientists to Big Picture"
  • by Jonah Lehrer.*

Now I just have to read it.