>>11008835Because in order for science to advance in a radical way from the present requires science looking at what is involved with scientific activity itself. Science has made huge advancements in almost every field it has looked, and created incredible technologies, yet social and cultural technologies are the least developed. Psychology and sociology are at best demi-scientific.
The next huge breakthrough will be a theory of human interaction with the same efficacy as physics. This will be a "science of creativity" that includes human creativity, biological creativity, and nonliving creativity (emergent processes) within a unified evolutionary framework. A prototype of such a theory can be found in the work of philosopher and logician Alfred North Whitehead, who envisioned a "theory of experiential evolution." Whitehead couldn't speculate far enough to form a scientifically testable hypothesis due to the limitations of science at the time, but someone eventually will.
If this topic interests anyone, here's some books that can help one understand this very strange and interdisciplinary conversation. There's many others, these are just among the best I know.
