  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,"
informed by and in awareness of anticipatory processes, should result in
scientific methods that transcend determinism and reductionism. Physics and
physics-based disciplines convincingly ascertained themselves by adequately
describing the non-living. A complementary perspective should account for the
specific causality characteristic of life by integrating past, present, and
future. Knowledge about anticipatory processes facilitates attainment of this
goal. Society cannot afford the dead-end street of reductionism. Science,
itself an expression of anticipatory activity, makes possible in our days
alternative understandings of reality and its dynamics.

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