From: Westbrick | #070
1) The causal chain behind things turns out to be relatively within our grasp, so we keep cutting things apart as we are now. And, just as things have been, every few hundred years or so modern science will simply hit another paradigm shift and have to reinterpret or throw out its old models as insufficient. So long as we have access to smaller and smaller, and bigger and bigger, slices of existence, our models will always have to change. Alternatively...
2) The causal chain behind things turns out not to be in our grasp, and we can only cut things up so far. Something like the Higgs-Boson or string theory turns out to be the final theater for scientific warfare against the world, and no new tools enable us to dig any deeper or climb any higher. We're simply left with what we have.
Either way, things don't look particularly promising. This is basically my problem with science.
I don't understand your position, can you please clarify it for me a bit? To me it's sounding like you oppose an endless chase in your first point and also oppose a chase with an end in sight in your second point. I'm probably misunderstanding something, because the only alternative to those two options is to stand still and die a slow, extremely boring death.