Redefining Reality

Good overview of the modern state of science. I liked the exploration of scientific history, and the ‘atomistic -> relational -> holistic' view of scientific progress is very interesting. However, the author's musings at the end of the book about a unified theory of psychology smells like the psychological utopianism that Asimov beautifully displayed in the Foundation series, a view which was popular when the field of psychology was young but has since fallen out of style. I think that the author fails to distinguish systems that are chaotic but amenable to statistical modeling (thermodynamics, the weather, etc.) from the vastly more complicated second order chaotic systems which change in reaction to theories you make about them (psychology/economics)