By Mary Midgley
What's the function of scientists in society? What may still we predict once they discuss greater than simply technological know-how? Mary Midgley discusses the excessive religious goals which are likely to assemble round the thought of technological know-how.
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The ‘particles’ posited today are by their very nature elements in a system. Though they may move from one grouping to another, they are defined largely by their interactions with one another. It is not clear, therefore, what could be meant by saying that the physical world was contingent in the sense of being put together by chance. It is interesting to notice how dependent Monod’s picture of universal contingency is on the presence of those once-popular permanent, separate, impenetrable atoms.
It took my breath away. Never, until these last few days, had I suspected what it means to ‘exist’ …We…trees, midnight-blue pillars, …a red-haired man digesting on a 48 THE FASCINATION OF CHANCE bench…were a heap of existents inconvenienced, embarrassed by ourselves, we hadn’t the slightest reason for being there, any of us…I dreamed vaguely of killing myself, to destroy at least one of these superfluous existences. But my death itself would have been superfluous …The essential thing is contingency.
Though they may move from one grouping to another, they are defined largely by their interactions with one another. It is not clear, therefore, what could be meant by saying that the physical world was contingent in the sense of being put together by chance. It is interesting to notice how dependent Monod’s picture of universal contingency is on the presence of those once-popular permanent, separate, impenetrable atoms. They, and indeed the whole notion of brute ‘stuff’ in the universe, have lately been subject to an increasing run of bad luck.