Philosophy of Science
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I was reading this essay about scientism - Scientism’s Dark Side: When Secular Orthodoxy Strangles Progress
I wonder if scientism can be seen as a left-brain-dominant viewpoint of the world. What are people's thoughts?
I agree that science relies on a myriad of truths that are unprovable by science alone, so to exclude other sources of knowledge—such as truths from philosophy, theology, or pure rationality—from our pursuit of truth would undermine science itself.
If the total Entropy of the Universe is always increasing, we can consider that at the beginning of the Universe, the Entropy was Zero. There was a single point of perfect Order and complete Chaos at the same time.
Furthermore, a single element or an infinite identical elements have exactly the same quantity of information as an infinite amount of random elements and that equals to 1 which expresses a single state.
Also, perfect order means lack of change which leads to a frozen system that expresses a single state, like a snapshot in time.
Later edit
I admit that my initial post was kind of rushed and not properly articulated. I am primarly referring to an Informational Equivalence. ( Of course I am not alone if I say that the basic unit of the Universe is information, after all https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/the-basis-of-the-universe-may-not-be-energy-or-matter-but-information/)
I also add that my claming that the Entropy was zero is far stretched but there is a consensus that it definitely was at minimum. I think its also a matter of choosing a starting reference point. This Physics stackexchange post is interesting for this reason and confirms the contradictory status of the initial conditions of the Universe https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/14004/how-can-it-be-that-the-beginning-universe-had-a-high-temperature-and-a-low-entro
I have then given scientific quotations and arguments for most of the claims. I think that makes my ideea close to speculation at most, but definitely far from a word salad or plain false statements.