Newton & the absolute, true, mathematical quantities themselves (materialism)

[Mike Weaver]

 From another Pruwett piece:

Toward a Post-Materialistic Science 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-pruett/toward-a-postmaterialistic-science_b_5842730.html>

"The newest frontier of science is the study of consciousness, for which 
a materialistic bias is particularly prejudicial. That is, 
investigations of consciousness reveal phenomena that appear to violate 
the existing materialistic paradigm. Materialistically oriented 
scientists typically reject these so-called "paranormal" phenomena 
out-of-hand because they fly in the face of cherished preconceptions. 
The refusal to accept the "damned facts" at face value and confront them 
head-on is, according to the authors, "antithetical to the true spirit 
of scientific inquiry."

The authors then propose a radical, post-materialistic paradigm: "Mind 
represents an aspect of reality as primordial as the physical world. 
Mind is fundamental in the universe; i.e., it cannot be derived from 
matter and reduced to anything more basic."

In the final essay 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-pruett/sciences-sacred-cows-part_2_b_3008153.html> 
(April 4, 2013) of a nine-part /Huffington Post/ series on "Science's 
Sacred Cows," I arrived at essentially the same conclusion: 
"Consciousness is not the magical by-product of a mechanical cosmos. It 
is an inherent attribute of the stuff of the universe."

The idea is neither original nor new. One can find intimations of this 
point of view in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hegel, 
and articulation of it in the writings of paleontologist-priest Teilhard 
de Chardin <http://www.teilharddechardin.org> (1881-1955) and 
"geologian" Thomas Berry <http://www.thomasberry.org> (1914-2009). 
What's new, however, is the naming of the science of the future as 
"post-materialistic" and that the idea is gaining traction.

The proposed post-materialistic paradigm heals the Cartesian partition 
separating mind and matter, reunites philosophy and natural philosophy, 
and begins to resolve the age-old clash between science and religion. 
Much of the tragedy of the human condition lies in the competition for 
human allegiance of two rigid metaphysics: transcendental monism 
(spirit/psyche first) and materialistic monism (matter first), the 
former the metaphysic of religion and the latter that of science. "Do we 
really need to make this tragic choice?" pleads Ilya Prigogine, Nobel 
laureate in chemistry.

Pruwett's intellectual dishonesty is revealed in the end quote - taken 
from Prigogine's 1982 Tanner Lecture "Only an Illusion "
http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/p/Prigogine84.pdf

the full quote being

"Do we have really to make a tragic choice between a timeless reality 
which leads to human alienation or an affirmation of time which seems to 
brade with scientific rationality?"


Prigogene' concern here is to question Einstein's assertion that the 
arrow of time is an illusion, and has nothing to do with Pruwett's 
attempt to assert 'mind' as a universal fundamental.




On 13/02/2016 11:38, ish mailian wrote:
> Science's Sacred Cows (Part 2): Absolute Space and Time
>

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