No crisis should go to waste

TL;DR

This paper advocates for rethinking scientific inquiry amid reproducibility crises by introducing G-complexity, aiming to move beyond traditional deterministic methods towards more holistic approaches.

Contribution

It proposes the concept of G-complexity to distinguish between decidable and non-decidable knowledge domains, suggesting a new paradigm for scientific methods.

Findings

Highlights the reproducibility crisis in experiments.

Introduces G-complexity as a framework for understanding knowledge domains.

Calls for a 'second Cartesian revolution' in scientific methodology.

Abstract

The crisis in the reproducibility of experiments invites a re-evaluation of methods of inquiry and validation procedures. The text challenges current assumptions of knowledge acquisition and introduces G-complexity for defining decidable vs. non-decidable knowledge domains. A "second Cartesian revolution" should result in scientific methods that transcend determinism and reductionism.