We Have Neither the Time nor the Faith in Science That American Scholars Do

From Tinkering to Thinkering. ‘Since natural selection is unable to produce an optimal state, some other mechanism must be involved. It is highly likely that this means phenomena from physics and chemistry, autocatalytic processes, dissipative structures and principles of self-organisation, as well as other factors that science will discover in due course.’ (quoted in Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, What Darwin Got Wrong, 2011, p. 92). We collect books, combine things, tinker and arrange them in strange constellations. ‘Some other mechanism must be involved.’ Or perhaps a set, a collection, which may resemble a mechanism just as readily as it does an organism.