I'm working with a friend of mine on a project of his called New Science. I am doing reading for it. One relevant article he found is by Rustom Roy, called, The Twilight of Science -- Last of the "Gods" (Futures, Vol. 29. No. 6. pp. 471-482, 1997). He says, "...science is ending. Why? because it has succeeded beyond its own wildest dreams. Science has explained virtually everything about the physical world that technologists, engineers, and other scientists, certainly most citizens, needed to know. Our curiosity... is fully satisfied..." Roy goes on argue that a new science will take human inquiry to a new level and offers the suggestion of Rupert Sheldrake in Seven Experiments that Could Shake the World, "do animals have a special means by which they know when their mistress or master is coming?" He says, "this has been observed by hundreds but needs quantifying."
C.S. Lewis in his Abolition of Man (1955) argues that science has achieved so much in that last decades through a power to explain. But this ability to analyze and conceptualize is also the ability to explain things away. In the end, explaining everything away, seeing through everything, we are at risk of seeing nothing at all. When everything is transparent, everything is invisible. He argues for a regenerate science, something he only dimly guesses at. He points to Goethe and Rudolf Steiner.
What do you think about science? Has it reached an end? Or is there more for the human spirit to know?
Monday, September 10, 2007
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I'm also researching new science, post science, and so on. One concern of course is that the old science will just go on faster and faster a la Ray Kurzweil to the mechanization of the human being.
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