METAPHORICAL BIAS. “Does the metaphorical nature of the way we represent upward and downward causation matter? The bias introduced by the metaphor is that there is a strong tendency to represent the lower levels as somehow more concrete. Many areas of science have proceeded by unravelling the small elements underlying the larger ones. But notice the bias already creeping in through the word ‘underlying’ in the sentence I have just written.”
http://rsfs.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/1/55
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022