I’m not sure interestingness is really the focus of the issue. I’m sure feminist post-structuralist discourse analyses of the recent banking crisis are very interesting to people interested in the subject, but I still don’t think it has any power to deduce true facts about the universe.
I do have another heuristic which is a little less straightforward to apply, but a little more selective: would a society of humans kept isolated from our own for thousands of years develop a similar discipline with the same essential elements as our version? Pure maths definitely passes that one, while something like Jungian analysis probably wouldn’t.
I’m not sure interestingness is really the focus of the issue. I’m sure feminist post-structuralist discourse analyses of the recent banking crisis are very interesting to people interested in the subject, but I still don’t think it has any power to deduce true facts about the universe.
I do have another heuristic which is a little less straightforward to apply, but a little more selective: would a society of humans kept isolated from our own for thousands of years develop a similar discipline with the same essential elements as our version? Pure maths definitely passes that one, while something like Jungian analysis probably wouldn’t.