深空探测与人类思维方式的变革

人类的科学活动已经超越地球,进入到地球以外的其他天体。随着深空探测活动的深入,必然会在传统的自然观、方法论和思维逻辑等方面引发一系列变革。深空探测使"自然"的内涵得以扩充,由地球延伸到宇宙,人与自然的关系也更加复杂化;在对外星球的认识方法和思维逻辑上,也由过去以演绎、类比为主到现在的以经验归纳为主。正是自然观、方法论与思维逻辑等方面的变革,使人类对外星球的认识有可能完成由科学假说向科学理论的过渡,从而构建严格意义的宇宙经验科学。

Deep Space Exploration and the Revolution of Human Thinking Mode

Human activity has gone beyond the scientific world,into the celestial body other than Earth.With the deep space exploration activities going into depth,a series of changes is bound to take place in the areas such as traditional concept of the nature,logical thinking and methodology.Deep space exploration extends the content of "nature" from Earth to the universe,the relationship between man and nature becoming more complicated.The understanding of the method and logic on other celestial bodies,which used to employ the methodology of deduction and analogy in the past,has now shifted to the current mainly empirical and inductive method.It is just the transfer of the concept of nature,methodology and logical thinking,that human understanding of other planets may be completed by the scientific hypothesis to the scientific theory so to enable us to construct a strict experiential cosmic science.