25-04-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com

Uh-Oh - Has Science Gotten Too Complex For Humans To Comprehend?

"The twin challenges of too much quantity and too little quality are rooted in the finite neurological capacity of the human mind. Scientists are deriving hypotheses from a smaller and smaller fraction of our collective knowledge and consequently, more and more, asking the wrong questions, or asking ones that have already been answered. Also, human creativity seems to depend increasingly on the stochasticity of previous experiences – particular life events that allow a researcher to notice
Read more »