Indeterminism, Causality and Information: Has Physics Ever Been Deterministic?

Has aging ever been considered healthy?

The current research topic inquires: “Should we treat aging as a disease?” Yet, in this inquiry, the question “Can aging be considered a disease?” is secondary, while the more primary question really must be “Is aging treatable?” Paradoxically, the answer given to the second question largely determines the answer to the first. The perceived unchangeable, and hence untreatable, nature of aging i...

Indeterminism and Randomness Through Physics∗

It is not totally unreasonable to speculate if and why the universe we experience with our senses and brains appears to be “(un)lawful.” Indeed, the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences” [1] seems mind-boggling and tantamount to our (non)existence. Beyond belief, there do not seem to exist a priori answers to such questions which would be forced upon us, say maybe ...

Ever been HAD?

Has evidence‐based medicine ever been modern? A Latour‐inspired understanding of a changing EBM

Evidence-based health care (EBHC), previously evidence-based medicine (EBM), is considered by many to have modernized health care and brought it from an authority-based past to a more rationalist, scientific grounding. But recent concerns and criticisms pose serious challenges and urge us to look at the fundamentals of a changing EBHC. In this paper, we present French philosopher Bruno Latour's...

Evolution of Information and Complexity in an Ever-Expanding Universe

Using the usual definitions of information and entropy in quantum gravity and statistical mechanics and the existing views about the relation between information and complexity, we examine the evolution of complexity in an ever expanding universe.