Figure 1 On whether we make things, or allow them to evolve. I thought I first read about this in a passage from Hayek, but I can no longer find it. The idea was that we model ourselves as having more agency than we do. So, imagine the most fundamental unit of human scientific endeavour, the laboratory experiment: Say a scientist wishes to measure the boiling point of water. They might describe the steps in the experiment: pouring water into a test tube, heating it with a bunsen burner, watc...
