Week 2, Reflections on Uncertainty

Uncertainty does not seem to me to be such a difficult concept to accept. The need of Western science to always know exactly where things are and exactly what they are has always struck me as kind of strange and reductionist. The need to classify leaves no room for mystery, which has always been a huge and wonderful part of the universe. It actually makes me excited to think that scientists have accepted concepts such as uncertainty (I guess they really didn’t have a choice) because it shows that, little by little, they might be opening up to not knowing. Also, the scientific method, which classifies scientists as objective observers, has seen a revolution. No longer completely separated and disconnected, scientists finally had to realize that whatever they do, want, and look for affects the outcome of their so-called controlled experiment. It seems that for very long humans considered ourselves separate from our world and now, in more ways than one, we are being forced to see the interconnectedness of everything.