08.22.09
Visions of a ghostseer
Visions of a Ghostseer
The previous post today on the confusion created by scientism confronting even such a simple issue as Buddhist psychology illustrates just how limited modern science in dealing with cultural issues.
The link is to our Kant page where the classic effort to deal with this already ancient confusion is discussed.
There is something inexcusable about the slide into reductionism and the effort to recast all of culture on that basis. The issue has been dealt with extensively over two centuries ago, but modern scientists have regressed to the Laplacean arrogance.
We don’t have to put up with it, or with the crippled theories of evolution like Darwinism that arise in that context.
James said,
August 22, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Big Science has a skeleton in the closet as Berlinski points out:
“The idea that there is out there a physical world which just happens to lend itself to mathematical description has always seemed to me to be incoherent. There is only one world – the universe, in fact, and it has the essential properties of a mathematical model. For reasons that we cannot even begin to understand, that model interacts with out senses, and so without measuring devices, allowing us to pretty much confirm conclusions antecedently reached by pure thought.”
http://www.idthefuture.com/2006/03/an_interview_with_david_berlin_1.html
Darwiniana » ‘Big Science has a skeleton in the closet’ said,
August 23, 2009 at 11:46 am
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