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Schism Between Science and Metaphysics
Is everyone familiar with what metaphysics is? The why? It’s the branch of philosophy that focuses specifically on the concepts we use to understand reality itself, rather than what might be the best way to do something. Science was originally classified as a philosophy, in my opinion it still is, but many object to the…
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Thoughts on Rationality
The first issue in my view is the attitudes people have about irrationality. What do you think? To my own view, rationality is equivalent to mechanism, artificiality. Is that fair to say? So thoughts on rationality? Is it always a virtue? If it is always a virtue, wouldn’t evolution naturally select for it? Can you…
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Science Should Evolve
What do you suggest should replace science? I feel science should evolve, not throw out the virtues it held in its earliest beginnings. How well is reality as mechanism serving us? Does mainstream science seem willing to view it any other way? How do you feel about the notion that the answer to all of…
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Wide and Plastic Thinking
We only can see a certain segment of reality. I do not think even our most sophisticated equipment allows us to see all of reality. We are still kids playing with rocks and sticks. Reality itself allows us to see all of reality. It’s self-encoding, and not in the least encrypted, but while we insist…
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Move to Whyever
Has anyone else heard of the theory that all reality is merely an energy field and that what manifests materially is caused by consciousness? Reality is a collection of energy fields, both implicate or pan-determined if you will, and explicit, and these fields each present their own unique domains of consciousness. Why can’t a metaphysical…
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Metaphysics of Science Topic Interests
In a holograph does time exist? No. Only in linear analysis of a hologram can time exist. So reality is a hologram? Yes. One section of a broader base image arising on and emerging from a pre-existing infrastructure. I heard one theory that time is a hologram of the final universe projected backwards so that…
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Conflict Between Science and Religion
There is a notion held in common these days by many people, that there is somehow a conflict between science and religion. I would acknowledge that currently there is social tension between avowed atheists and members of any religion, even if the religion espouses no real dogma to be opposed to as is the case…
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Religion as Inspiration for Understanding
I will ask you friends, do you feel the larger scientific community acts with philosophical integrity? There are some scientific thinkers that do advance the notion that scientific discovery will offer change as regards society and human social ills. It tends to get around to the same idea though. You are an accident of nature,…
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Science without Guidance is Aimless
Would you say the state of science as a social entity is a stable and positive influence in today’s world? Not as a social entity, no. As they say, any scientific advancement can be used for good or ill, so something else must guide that. I think science has improved the quality of living for…
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Inspired and Motivated by Religion
Let’s take a step back from science… Someone noted that religion gave us something better than the pre-existing barbarity. Lets’ run with that. I personally agree with that in part. Even archaeologically many of the innovations we attribute to advanced society came not from science as many claim today, but were inspired and motivated by…
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We Are Aimless!?
With the rise of industrialism, there was a vested interest in it not for the greater good of mankind, but because of the potential for financial gain and the political instability that could cause, giving those who succeeded a chance at power they never would have previously had. So in order to clear the way…
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Early Morale Officers
There is a reason primitive tribes saw the emergence of the shaman. We originally recognized and even shared a vision of an intuitively understood world. People look for someone to guide them. Life is scary. Actually no, not my point at all. People recognized that even their personal experiences were strange. The individual self is…
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A World with the Shaman
Now a world that has room for the “shaman” or whatever that would be called in the modern era… The memes you see going around would be actively engaged and refined. Organized practices of social story telling would incorporate the shifts in social perception and mood that show up in this material, underscoring the unity…
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Source of Greatest Strength
Another example of the truths I am trying to get at… Even the most die hard materialists tend to acknowledge an experience of a person with “power”, whether that’s interpreted as just them simply being unusually charismatic or strangely disturbing or something else all together. Everyone can relate to this idea, no? The person seems…
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Principles of our Ancestors
I have been reading rants on Facebook as if science had innate moral virtue and how horribly irresponsible it is to veer from science or the supposedly proven. I have also been reading about how horrible scientists cook the books, so to speak. It’s even considered legitimate practice. I’ve noticed that atheists use science as…
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Tribal Understanding: Listening to the Earth
Example, a big element of tribal understanding (though one of those vaguely mystical things orthodox scientists are so keen to dismiss) is the idea of listening to the earth in whatever form they symbolize it. They have been slowly accepting that animals can and do sense the earth electromagnetic field, birds and fish mostly, but…
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Tribal Understanding: Capacity for Language
Another example, the old legends of humans talking with animals was seen as absolutely nonsense. More and more, brain size seems less likely to play a role in brain power. Even things like sea slugs seem able to perform cognitive functions that would seem impossible, even microscopic worms, and some of these organisms don’t even…
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Memetic Poison
So language, and specifically mathematics… This is the long path coming back around to today’s intended subject of Benford’s Law. The foundational axioms of math are coming into question. They aren’t holding up well in the face of our progressing insight into the natural world around us, and our math has value only to the…
Category: Science
Whether people like it or not we are irrational beings. We all form a metaphysics of what reality is and why it’s that way. What beliefs has science offered us for understanding their knowledge?
What would replace science? An advanced form of “computation”, nonlinear, non-heuristic, capable of seeing disparate algorithms as the parts of the complex matrix they are, each dynamic in its own place, and would lead to an ability to anticipate evolution not only of our self but of the physical world in such a way that the greatest good for all beings could be achieved.
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” William Bragg, Sr.
“Science is nothing but perception.” Plato