note from 2019
astrology* – astronomy as an example for a (general) relationship between pseudoscience and science:
The 2 always go hand-in-hand: A science is naturally accompanied by and followed by [development of] a corresponding pseudo-science. Such a pseudo-science is the natural attempt of all people (which includes people less literate in the science) to expand and re-interpret a theory [in such a way as] to include theorems in domains of [personal] interest/import.
*contemporary
edit sept 2022: I now realise that this note was wrong in a very obvious way – it’s incompatible with the history of astrology and astronomy. But I’ll leave it here to show that I stand by the right to make stupid mistakes – which maybe follows from the realisation of the infinite fallibility one has as someone who of course doesn’t have total understanding – the thought I have now as someone looking back on past stupidity may oneday itself be looked back on in this way, I have no [epistemic] way of judging that at this moment, as I am not judging my ideas against the totality, as, again, I don’t understand the totality. So I just keep thinking.
Anyway, more recently I had thought something like this about pseudo-science or things like modern astrology: Modern pseudo-sciences may arise by a 2 phase process of which the first phase is normal modern science, which includes both an empirical aspect and an abstract-mathematical aspect, and the second phase is someone taking the theory produced by the first phase and exploiting its inevitable incompleteness by expanding the theory in directions that ones intuitions.