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by sanderjd 4660 days ago
Am I supposed to know why you have a problem with Thomas Cavalier-Smith, or is that just a non-sequitur?
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no, just that I have a problem with him. But if you are curious: so much wasted effort. I am not a fan of siloing sciences, but TCS puts into stark perspective Rutherford's epithet "All science is either physics or stamp collecting" - and what TCS has done is stamp collecting at its worst. Over, and over again.
Physics, physics ... isn't that just a branch of applied math?
A good friend of me said: anything that is science is just a special case of either mathematics or physics (and anything that does not satisfy this criterion is bullshit or rambling on and on; but surely not science).