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laodan rated 11 months ago- Jaron's World: Peace through God in Discover Magazine by Jaron Lanier
The idea of God (or gods) also served in ancient times as a way to apply the clan-centric cognition of the human species to the problem of comprehending the dynamics of the world. In the Hebrew Bible, for instance, God is the "King of the universe" so God served at least two duties: as clan leader and as explanation of reality. Scientific experimentation need not be a source of constraints that reduce God over time. There are well-established streams of religious thought that treat science as elevating God so as to be concerned only with things too big to be framed by science. But why should a scientist show any degree of acknowledgment, much less friendliness, toward topics that are so big or mysterious that they can almost certainly never be addressed experimentally? It's mean-spirited to fight against that kind of hope. It also reinforces fears that scientists are claiming to be an immaculate, elite population. After all, scientists are also afraid to die, and we haven't necessarily achieved some hypothetical level of perfect rationality inside our own heads. Instead of telling other people what not to hope, a more constructive approach is to learn how to be more articulate about the limits of experimentation. Jaron's World: Peace through God I have often posted about the subject of science versus religion. Both are stories about reality. Religious stories are simple stories at the image of closed systems which means that they are providing answers to all possible questions. In contrast science does not pretend to have all the answers while insisting that, in approaching reality, what counts is the method. The scientific method relies on testing to confirm or reject an hypothesis and the gradual build-up of confirmed hypotheses gives science its body of knowledge. The problem with both approaches lies in the infinite character of reality that gives us to understand its un-attainability. So if the whole of reality is in-accessible our understanding never will account for more than a vision or a perception of that whole. Now, jumping to another plane, we know that the survival of the atoms lies in their collective wholes. Human survival is made possible by their societal belonging. But how is a society to find its unity? I posit that societal unification is realized through the gluing of the individuals in a common worldview. That means that a vision or perception of reality is then shared by all the members of a society. Religion was such a worldview gluing the individuals in the past... but over the last centuries rationality has broken that worldview. In the meantime rationality and science have failed to develop as a shared worldview... For more click on the keywords religion or worldviews in my SU Tag Cloud.
- Jaron's World: Peace through God in Discover Magazine by Jaron Lanier
