Pode a ciência explicar tudo?
Science explains, not describes The experience of consciousness seems incommunicable and ineffable. Yet science can hope to explain how it arises (2) Tweet this (27) Comments ( 31 ) Sue Blackmore guardian.co.uk , Monday 12 July 2010 10.25 BST Article history The question: Can science explain everything? When Andrew Brown first posed this week's question to me he asked "Can science describe everything?". My instant, unreflective reply was "No". He implied that this might be a less restrictive question than "Can science explain everything" and yet my instant reaction to this one was "Yes". I'd like to explore this curious difference. Science can (potentially at least) explain everything because its ways of trying to understand the universe by asking questions of it should not leave any areas off-limits. The methods of openness, inquiry, curiosity, theory building, hypothesis testing and so on can be adapted and developed to explore and ...