ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the relationship between knowledge and meaning. The application of knowledge leads to power; the application of meaning leads to wisdom. By defining knowledge in terms of objectivity we have lost the concept of meaning, and as a consequence science has become amoral, unconnected with value. At the same time a science of objects, objective knowledge, cuts itself off from an adequate theory of organism. The exploration of the implications of looking upon all organisms as hypothesis testing systems has not yet, however, begun. It could transform biology by placing model construction and observation at the centre of the biological process, not at the evolutionary periphery, the phenomenon of Mind. The hypothesis may be considered to specify certain basic constraints entering as contingent factors in the organic process, supplementing in a characteristically biological manner the laws of motion’ of the organism seen as a physicochemical system.
