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Anonymous
Posted Jun 28, 2005 2:27 PM
Most scientist exclude all subjective, metaphysical, and ethical matters from their work and communications. Exclusion does not make ones work more objective. Nor does the belief that taking philosophical approach is impure and will weaken and destroy Mathematics, physics....science.
On the contrary physics/mathematics...was born in philosophical quest for meaning and understanding of our existence. They are one. The parent and child.
Despite the towering intellectual and technological archievments of the 20th and 21st century science, its spell over us has been irreversibly weakened. There are at least two important reasons for this.
First: Scientist and layman alike have become aware of limits and shoetcomings of scientific knowledge.
Second: We realise that our perpetual hunger for spiritual understanding is real and undeniable. It can neither be defined away by subtle logic nor be satisfied by viewing the universe as sterile, machanistic, and accidental.
The human search for meaning and value is of paramount importance, and that physics/mathematics (science) can shed light on that search, provided first that it stops masquarading as an objective body of knowledge and reveals its subjective nature. By probing the human imaginative aspect of physics, and breaking down its false subject-object barriers, we shall find new life in science. The much celebrated ability to quantify the world is no guarantee of objectivity and that measurement itself is a value judgement created by the human mind
(to be continued)...watch this space also...
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