PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Unification Church, Ringfort, Frontal Lobe
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If we look at established sciences they are really applied physicists. The three prototypical sciences, physics, biology and chemistry, has these four things in common. The purpose of the scientists is to figure out relationship of laws that actually run the universe. Technology allows people to make more detailed observation, we have the natural laws that are occurring and then we have the scientists trying to find a rule that makes this happen. They take a complex term and break it down into a precise relationship of lower constructs; this is referred to as reduction. One of the benefits is that at every level of science you can tell if at one level chemistry is consistent with biology or whether chemistry is consistent with chemistry and physics. Really we don"t have each of these sciences individuals but they are all part of this construct that helps us understand the universe.
