Post by Hector Aguinaga on Jun 13, 2015 4:57:39 GMT
2. In reading the book “Oceanic Metaphor” I read across a very interesting open minded concept consider to be dualism theory in the scientific community. “Others such as the Nobel Prize winning neurophysiologist, Sir John Eccles, believed that the mind (or soul) was something quite distinct from the brain that housed it. As he stridently argued in Evolution of the Brain, Creation of the Self, “I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition…. We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material world”. (The Oceanic Metaphor) by Professor David Lane.
That statement gives me an insight into the analogous question of philosophy. As it uses in a sense the same hidden metaphor: Philosophy as the study and questioning of all sciences is done well when it follows the ideologies of material reductionist of physical science, which implies that when those reductionist rules are not follow, it then remains a series of hypothetical questions and interpretations of the sciences in general. That approach shows to eventually be close-minded and can be compared to the argument between Bohr vs. Einstein.
I think that Reductionism and Dualism eventually have a common junction point, which is faith, as both have expectancies of an eventual reality. When NASA for example sends a shuttle into space, scientist subconsciously have faith that their research will work and the shuttle will complete the journey into space and to another planet, although, before the launch date, none of those expectancies have actually occurred yet prior to launch, and scientist have no idea of the actual outcome, as they subconsciously and then consciously keep believing that it will happen successfully, as it apply to the convictions of religious faith in life, thus, both pairing to a common junction point, therefore both depend on each other even if they agree or not, making philosophy one of the greatest studies of the sciences, thus, finding the true meaning of philosophy, as it apply to all sciences, and the answer to the original question of the phrase “Philosophy”.
That statement gives me an insight into the analogous question of philosophy. As it uses in a sense the same hidden metaphor: Philosophy as the study and questioning of all sciences is done well when it follows the ideologies of material reductionist of physical science, which implies that when those reductionist rules are not follow, it then remains a series of hypothetical questions and interpretations of the sciences in general. That approach shows to eventually be close-minded and can be compared to the argument between Bohr vs. Einstein.
I think that Reductionism and Dualism eventually have a common junction point, which is faith, as both have expectancies of an eventual reality. When NASA for example sends a shuttle into space, scientist subconsciously have faith that their research will work and the shuttle will complete the journey into space and to another planet, although, before the launch date, none of those expectancies have actually occurred yet prior to launch, and scientist have no idea of the actual outcome, as they subconsciously and then consciously keep believing that it will happen successfully, as it apply to the convictions of religious faith in life, thus, both pairing to a common junction point, therefore both depend on each other even if they agree or not, making philosophy one of the greatest studies of the sciences, thus, finding the true meaning of philosophy, as it apply to all sciences, and the answer to the original question of the phrase “Philosophy”.