"... the behaviour of an organised system, the action of an organism, or human activity cannot be explained in terms of causal energy transmission alone... information rather than causality describes processes in, or between organised systems. The most general model of a natural process on which scientific explanation may be based is no longer the...
Author: wuzy
Thoughts on Doubting
Last morning, we were asked to share our VJC story during Civics Lesson. I ended my reflection with the following remark:"It's okay for us to have doubts about our dreams, cos if we are not doubting, we are not thinking." It sounded reasonably true, didn't it? However, to be honest, I personally doubt whether the process of doubting...
Trade-off between Equity and Efficiency
It seems that we have taken the trade-off between equity and efficiency in microeconomics for granted. Free market can achieve allocative efficiency at the expense of equity, whereas government may choose to sacrifice efficiency in exchange for equity. The trade-off between these two goals is obvious from empirical evidence; we seldom ask ourselves why this...