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Being approached in different ways Nature gives different responses and that projecting one response onto it as describing its true shape is wishful thinking, not science. . . . The success of a particular research program, say, molecular biology, or of a particular project, such as the Human Genome Project, can be explained in at least two ways. First way: the procedures (experiments, ideas, models, etc.) that are part of the program and that strongly interfere with Nature reveal how Nature is independently of the interference. Second way: they reveal how Nature responds to the interference. Adopting the second way, we say that the world as described by scientists is the result of a complex exchange between Nature as She Is In and For Herself – and this lady we shall never know – and inquisitive research teams including, possibly, the whole subculture that supports them. . . .
Being approached in different ways Nature gives different responses and that projecting one response onto it as describing its true shape is wishful thinking, not science. . . . The success of a particular research program, say, molecular biology, or of a particular project, such as the Human Genome Project, can be explained in at least two ways. First way: the procedures (experiments, ideas, models, etc.) that are part of the program and that strongly interfere with Nature reveal how Nature is independently of the interference. Second way: they reveal how Nature responds to the interference. Adopting the second way, we say that the world as described by scientists is the result of a complex exchange between Nature as She Is In and For Herself – and this lady we shall never know – and inquisitive research teams including, possibly, the whole subculture that supports them. . . .
. . . Nature as described by our scientists is indeed an artifact built in collaboration with a Being sufficiently complex to mock and, perhaps, punish materialists by responding to them in a crudely materialistic way.
. . . Nature as described by our scientists is indeed an artifact built in collaboration with a Being sufficiently complex to mock and, perhaps, punish materialists by responding to them in a crudely materialistic way.
"Nature as a work of art", Common Knowledge 1 (1992) No. 3.
"Art as a product of nature as a work of art", World Futures 40(1994): 97-98. Reprinted in: Conquest of Abundance, Chicago – London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. pp.239-240.
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