Posted: May 08, 2015 7:42 am
Perhaps the study of how the universe came to be is a science because the researchers are looking for explanations which come down to the mathematical regularities of physics, while historians look rather for explanations in terms of human motivation, where the physical sciences do not, so far at any rate, tell us anything useful? Human brains are still effectively black boxes as far as science is concerned because they are so complex; many of our dealings with the non-human world have been transformed by science, but our dealings with each other still need the evolved brain processes of Theory of Mind, which have not (yet) been either described or superseded by science.