Tag: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

  • How we tinker with mental models of reality to create hypotheses

    In Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Phaedrus contemplates where hypotheses come from. Phaedrus says that in the scientific method, hypotheses creation is the biggest mystery. Hypotheses just appear, out of nowhere. I don’t agree. I think there is a clear explanation as to how hypotheses seem to suddenly appear from nowhere. It is…