Axumezana wrote: ↑18 Feb 2023, 12:36
The following is a simplified answer.
In Engineering 1+ 1 = 2
In social Science / politics 1+1 could be equal 1 or less than 1 or more than 1
In fact that is what we call deterministic (the outcome is preknown), it can't and shouldn't deviate from the preknown /expected outcome. AI is an outgrowth of this concept, if we look closely at it.
In social science there is nothing that you can preknow, it all depends on the dynamics in the system. This is very important and the central message of what Prof. Sossina expressed as "everything that happens was preordained", I guess.
There is another aspect, which is also characteristic of natural science, it is static, it remained the same since Big Bang, if I may have understood her well.
In comparison the law (legal concept) we make in Ethiopia today, as an example, is based not what was there during the monarchy time in the country, or the socialist time for that matter. It is simply based on the current dynamics in the system.
If it was about natural science, then the law making might have remained one and the same ever since Ethiopia was created, because there is what we call principle. Nothing deviates from principle in the domain of natural science, in the case of social science, just refer to the recent state of affairs of your TPLF (well, this is not intended to be about politics but just to explain the idea more easily).
Cheers!