Classificatory fanatisms like cladistics and Higgs particle-ism will grow out of science forever
Ideas of “things” that conflate pattern and process, like the “true tree of life” of cladistics and “Higgs particle” of particle physics, are actually paradoxes, because they emerge from starting logical reasoning with kinds (ie, classes) instead of with things, because classification ultimately ends in paradox (which Bertrand Russel also demonstrated in 1901 with his “Russell’s paradox).
The problem with such “things” is that they conflate IS with DOES, when although DOES in a general sense also IS, IS can’t be DOES. Such “things” will thus be caught between being IS and DOES in an infinite recursion (ie, infinite loop).
In the case of the “true tree of life” of cladistics, it means that all possible such things will contain paradoxical contradictions, that is, sub-things (in this case “biological species) that possess mutually exclusive properties. In the case of “Higgs particle” of particle physics, this kind of “particle” can’t emerge from being a practically totally irrelevant figment of the imagination. Such “Higgs particles” (and thus also the “Higgs field”) are (is) thus like God – an interesting thought, but totally useless practically.
However, the claim that particle physicists have indeed found “Higgs particle” empirically is indeed sensational, since it would mean that belief is fact and facts are belief, which would really turn matters on their head, including contradicting itself. This claim dous thus not make only the worst sceptics, like me, but also much less skeptics smell a rat, but as with all such totally surprising claims, it is difficult to find the rat. The rat is thus in that all such things emerge from starting logical reasoning with kinds (ie, classes) instead of with things, because classification ultimately ends in paradox (which Bertrand Russel thus also demonstrated in 1901 with his “Russell’s paradox). The rat does thus reside in an inconsistent axiom. The problem to find the rat is due to that it is located at the bottom of the logical building it supports, not in the logic of the building itself. This is probably why the particle physicists announced the finding with the expression: “as a layman, I would now say – I think we have it”. “As a layman”, “think we have it”; they actually admit that they aren’t researchers anymore, but laymen, actually believers, thinking instead of knowing.
However, the fact that conceptualization opens for us to arrive to such ideas of “monads” means that suggestions that they are real will probably emerge among us forever. Peter Higgs is neither the first nor the last to religify classification (ie, turn classification into a belief in monads). Instead, such classificatory fanatisms (like scientific race biology) will grow out of science forever.
Source: http://menvall.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/classificatory-fanatisms-like-cladistics-and-higgs-particle-ism-will-grow-out-of-science-forever/
