Hi Christine,
I must confess that I have been attracted by your name, as it is similar to mine. In any case, I have read your beautiful and peculiar Essay. Here are my comments/questions:
1) I think that empowering the individual's mind by taking advantage of its truthful representation of novelty is a good thing. Here a key word is "truthful". In scientific sense I understand "truthful" as "rigorous".
2) Your beautiful sentence "nature thinking about nature" is consistent with anthropic principle.
3) Do you mean the search of a TOE (Theory of Everything) with "expanded worldview"?
4) I like your sentence "Nature tends to create isolable systems prone to measure". If you agree, I would like to use it in a reply to a referee of a submitted paper of mine that I am currently writing.
5) Your Prop. III "The scientific worldview is an intelligent worldview, but does not saturate the mind worldview" recalls me Einstein's famous statement that "Imagination is more important than knowledge".
6) I am an endorser of determinism. Thus, I disagree with your statement that "nature itself might be, fundamentally, an indeterminacy-based substratum". But reading your further statement that "such tools render uncertainty itself as a potential attribute of the knowledge-base (and not a purely unknown, limiting factor), leading to increased intelligibility", I could agree with you instead.
7) I agree with your point that empowering the human mind towards the novelty implies freedom rather than steering.
8) The key word of your Essay looks to be "inclusivity". From the purely scientific point of you it should be connected with the idea of being "open mind" in Science.
You wrote a very particular and original Essay. I will give you an high rate accordingly.
I hope you will find the time to read, comment and rate my Essay.
Best luck in the Contest.
Cheers,
Ch.