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The “tight” version is a form of [[data modernism]]. Every branch of the world ash of destiny, every atomic reaction, every operating impulse of the universe is, in principle, calculable and that we have not yet done so is down to our own feeble calculating machines. Many serious intellectuals believe this. If it is true, then everything in the future is inevitable, immutable, and there’s nothing to be gained from grousing about it. | The “tight” version is a form of [[data modernism]]. Every branch of the world ash of destiny, every atomic reaction, every operating impulse of the universe is, in principle, calculable and that we have not yet done so is down to our own feeble calculating machines. Many serious intellectuals believe this. If it is true, then everything in the future is inevitable, immutable, and there’s nothing to be gained from grousing about it. | ||
The “loose” version still says there are better and worse ways of interacting with the world, they can be — ''must'' be — deduced objectively, that is, without reference to any person’s subjective standpoint regardless of how marginalised, and this is precisely what the social institutions [[standpoint]] theory so criticises are there to so. So, there's nothing to be gained from grousing about it. | |||
===The past as a formal system=== | ===The past as a formal system=== | ||