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What would be the view on Hegel's dialectics in terms of modern science?

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Hegel's dialectics is often described as the process of the negation of the negation, or in short, thesis, antithesis, synthesis. The idea is that things in history undergo a constant process of improvement through conflict. <br><br>To an extent, this resembles the process of natural selection, where weaker genes are eliminated in favor of stronger ones. We also see a similar process in science, in the scientific method, where a hypothesis is tested and often disproven, generating new data and forcing us to re-formulate the hypothesis, or the Hegelian concept of thesis, antithesis, synthesis.<br><br>Of course, this in no way means that Hegel's dialectics is the same as the scientific method or natural selection, we just see certain similarities between the processes. So what would be the view on this among scholars/scientists? I have been unable to find a satisfying answer to this question.

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