Science versus technology

timojin

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Technology is continuously evolving science is borrowing the knowhow from technology to advance
 
Why not say Science is the bastard child of technology ?

Because that is not what Russ is saying. At all.

He is saying, rather, that technology is the child (no need for the pejorative epithet "bastard", so far as I can see) of science.

But of course it is the case that the observations that advance science rely on technology, to a greater or lesser extent, so the two are interdependent. If that was your point.
 
The act of scientific investigation was around long before we referred to it as "science" in our manuscripts.
True, though it is worth noting that scientific thought processes, while a component of some peoples' makeup, had to be formalized to separate them (though they still overlap). Prior to that, they were a variable muddy mixture that also included philosophy.
 
It's the opposite of course. Science drives technology. The science of gunpowder preceded the invention of the gun.
Before gun powder there was sulfur and there was unfinished burning wood ( charcoal ) . you mix them together you get a nice flame and if you keep it in a closed container you might get a boom .
When solving a problem, one must first find a solution (science) before one can apply the solution (technology).
Science comes after you observe and than try to figured out why does it happen .
 
Before gun powder there was sulfur and there was unfinished burning wood ( charcoal ) . you mix them together you get a nice flame and if you keep it in a closed container you might get a boom .

Science comes after you observe and than try to figured out why does it happen .
Right. Still before implementation in a technology though.
 
Before gun powder there was sulfur and there was unfinished burning wood ( charcoal ) . you mix them together you get a nice flame and if you keep it in a closed container you might get a boom .
A primitive form of science. But you need saltpeter, which is found in urine. A strange congress indeed.
 
I'll say it a different way: technology is applied science, so the statement in the OP is circular.
Moreover, technology can never be as exact as science. As explained in the Tegmark clip, technology often takes shortcuts from the complete and pure scientific theory, as long as it is functional.
Example: Science can describe the properties of a purely symmetrical sphere, but on earth it is impossible to make a perfect spherical object, such as a ball bearing, but we can come close enough to be functional.
 
@ timojin:

Before gun powder there was sulfur and there was unfinished burning wood ( charcoal ) . you mix them together you get a nice flame and if you keep it in a closed container you might get a boom .

Science comes after you observe and than try to figured out why does it happen .

I suspect you are conflating two distinct processes. Even in the most primitive brain, and whatever 'mind' consequentially evolved within its workings, there existed a pattern recognition evolutionary product that was instinctively useful in spotting prey or predators. That same primitive mind also often came serendipitously across a pattern of 'things' in inanimate forms and processes going on around them in their local environment.

So serendipitous 'recognition' of something that happens or exists and was immediately recognized as beneficial in effect to an organism's survival, may be immediately exploited as a low level understanding based 'technology' by even that primitive mind (evidence the intelligent recognition and problem solving faculties exhibited in many birds and animals working purely from evolved instinct and experience; also the stick/feces throwing behavior of chimpanzees etc).

That serendipitous and instinctive naturally evolved process is entirely different from the higher level understanding based logical and specifically directed process developed by us humans known as natural philosophy and then in its later methodological incarnation as "objective science method". The science process starts with a conscious observation of a pattern/phenomenon, followed by a conscious application of logics and tests of whatever kind to make sense of the observation in higher level mind construct terms which human beings work with to survive and understand the world around them.

So you see, timojin, technology is of two kinds regarding provenance and immediacy of utility/implementations. The first kind, ie primitive technology type and process, even though that came first in our own evolutionary history, is nevertheless qualitatively and methodologically many levels lower in logical and directed inputs and manipulations than the science and technology nexus and methodology we humans have developed to the current state of the art in both the attainment of scientific insights and the deliberate application of those insights to purposeful longterm process of developing technological inventions.

I hope this has been of use to your OP discussion, timojin. Best.
 
@ timojin:



I suspect you are conflating two distinct processes. Even in the most primitive brain, and whatever 'mind' consequentially evolved within its workings, there existed a pattern recognition evolutionary product that was instinctively useful in spotting prey or predators. That same primitive mind also often came serendipitously across a pattern of 'things' in inanimate forms and processes going on around them in their local environment.

So serendipitous 'recognition' of something that happens or exists and was immediately recognized as beneficial in effect to an organism's survival, may be immediately exploited as a low level understanding based 'technology' by even that primitive mind (evidence the intelligent recognition and problem solving faculties exhibited in many birds and animals working purely from evolved instinct and experience; also the stick/feces throwing behavior of chimpanzees etc).

That serendipitous and instinctive naturally evolved process is entirely different from the higher level understanding based logical and specifically directed process developed by us humans known as natural philosophy and then in its later methodological incarnation as "objective science method". The science process starts with a conscious observation of a pattern/phenomenon, followed by a conscious application of logics and tests of whatever kind to make sense of the observation in higher level mind construct terms which human beings work with to survive and understand the world around them.

So you see, timojin, technology is of two kinds regarding provenance and immediacy of utility/implementations. The first kind, ie primitive technology type and process, even though that came first in our own evolutionary history, is nevertheless qualitatively and methodologically many levels lower in logical and directed inputs and manipulations than the science and technology nexus and methodology we humans have developed to the current state of the art in both the attainment of scientific insights and the deliberate application of those insights to purposeful longterm process of developing technological inventions.

I hope this has been of use to your OP discussion, timojin. Best.

You are attempting to justify that science is some thing higher intellect, Let me put it this way. The Primitive man hat to satisfy his hungry belly so he developed technology . After the primitive man had plenty of food and time then he started philosophy and ask questions as WHY things work .
Let me ask you : Grooving food . or initial farming Is it technology or science ?
 
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