1. How did society shape science and how science shape the society?
Answers
The relationship between society and science aught to start with the human capacity for observation and socialization.
Using capacities as our starting point allows us to imagine how our species’ path towards creating social and scientific complexity took place through history.
The simplest way to express the first principles for how society and science mutually shape one another is by stating:
Society raises problems, science is one response to problems. Science solves problems, but society will raise problems with science’s solutions. In this way, we have a living relationship between science and society. A living relationship simply means that 3 basic things are constantly taking place in the interplay between science and society - reproduction, metabolism, and evolution.