"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
- Albert Einstein
“The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
— Freeman Dyson
"Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute."
- Freeman Dyson
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about science is that it is rigidly paradigm-locked and effectively self-exiled from truth. Consciousness is entirely off the charts of science because the infinite cannot be represented in a finite system. Science is a structure and requires the support that only a false paradigm can provide.
There is no physical universe - period, full stop. A ridiculous statement, perhaps, so it should be easy to disprove, but it can't be disproven. Objective knowledge itself is impossible, meaning that science can never rise above non-probable conjecture. Hence, all science is obviously and inescapably pseudo-science.
Are scientists our greatest minds? Maybe, but moot.
Great intelligence and effective thinking seldom go together. In fact, not only are scientists not our best thinkers but, due to years of highly specialized education and training, they are probably the most narrowly focused and effectively indoctrinated people in the modern world.
This is as it must be, but such intense focus automatically disqualifies scientists from addressing the broadest questions of being. As Richard Feynman said, a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
All scientific claims should be prefaced with a disclaimer. That seems like a scientific-y thing to do. A standard disclaimer would probably suffice in most cases:
Warning:
The scientific findings contained herein are based on the uncritical acceptance of consensus reality as true reality, and must therefore be viewed in the same light as mythology, folklore, superstition and religion.
But, as honest as it might be to provide this disclosure, science can't afford to acknowledge its operating assumptions. Those assumptions are what holds science up, and no one wants to cut the branch they're sitting on.
I suppose that any scientist would dismiss my assertions as laughable, but they can't do it scientifically. They can't falsify idealism and they can't prove anything, making science the most radical of fundamentalist religions.
We have to make every effort to understand this directly because science is the presumptive torchbearer of human knowledge, and much of the wired world is kneeling in their church.
It's not my wish to deliver an anti-science polemic, but to encourage the reader to take a fresh look at the overhigh esteem in which we hold science."
- Jed McKenna
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
- Albert Einstein
“The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
— Freeman Dyson
"Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute."
- Freeman Dyson
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about science is that it is rigidly paradigm-locked and effectively self-exiled from truth. Consciousness is entirely off the charts of science because the infinite cannot be represented in a finite system. Science is a structure and requires the support that only a false paradigm can provide.
There is no physical universe - period, full stop. A ridiculous statement, perhaps, so it should be easy to disprove, but it can't be disproven. Objective knowledge itself is impossible, meaning that science can never rise above non-probable conjecture. Hence, all science is obviously and inescapably pseudo-science.
Are scientists our greatest minds? Maybe, but moot.
Great intelligence and effective thinking seldom go together. In fact, not only are scientists not our best thinkers but, due to years of highly specialized education and training, they are probably the most narrowly focused and effectively indoctrinated people in the modern world.
This is as it must be, but such intense focus automatically disqualifies scientists from addressing the broadest questions of being. As Richard Feynman said, a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
All scientific claims should be prefaced with a disclaimer. That seems like a scientific-y thing to do. A standard disclaimer would probably suffice in most cases:
Warning:
The scientific findings contained herein are based on the uncritical acceptance of consensus reality as true reality, and must therefore be viewed in the same light as mythology, folklore, superstition and religion.
But, as honest as it might be to provide this disclosure, science can't afford to acknowledge its operating assumptions. Those assumptions are what holds science up, and no one wants to cut the branch they're sitting on.
I suppose that any scientist would dismiss my assertions as laughable, but they can't do it scientifically. They can't falsify idealism and they can't prove anything, making science the most radical of fundamentalist religions.
We have to make every effort to understand this directly because science is the presumptive torchbearer of human knowledge, and much of the wired world is kneeling in their church.
It's not my wish to deliver an anti-science polemic, but to encourage the reader to take a fresh look at the overhigh esteem in which we hold science."
- Jed McKenna
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