"Science" as a method for determining what works and doesn't in the real world is fantastic. As an institution it's terrible: as it's subject to subversion by those who in their infinite, self-deluded hubris, think that they should rule the world.
So true. The activation of the inner latent understanding as you write. Common sense and gut feeling. It reminds me of my mechanic, who told me that when Covid started he was weary and took precautions, but after 3 weeks saw through it and that it was just BS. He is an example of many who are not great intellectuals but who have a good common sense and BS detector.
Thanks for this article, which I just now got around to read.
Also I think that this rigid science trains their "common sense" to seek that pattern which they believe is the answer.
Like the religious person who seek god in the clouds, they seek god in numbers.
Buried indeed, in their own beliefs of the "end". Linear thinking, the future is already plotted based on today.
Have you seen the show Westworld? Season 3 goes into how determinism cant really predict the future, unless you manipulated conditions to attain your prediction. Haha...
Indeed, there seems to be a strange connection between the idea of determinism and the idea to manipulate the world so that your idea of determinism holds true... Even though of course these are logically incompatible.
Fantastic piece. I've said many of these things myself to any who would listen. As a professional scientist, I absolutely abhor any presentation of results along the lines of "Amazing new results totally violate your common sense!" Quite aside from this being a mountebank's attempt to grab attention for often dodgy results with clickbaity, it reinforces precisely the poisonous message you identify: that science somehow trumps common sense, and that the hoi poloi should therefore abandon their common sense and simply trust the experts and Follow The Science™.
The truth is that science, real honest science, is nothing more than rigorously applied common sense. Anyone can do it. Anyone can understand it. The only reason results are sometimes 'surprising' is that scientists often examine phenomena outside of standard human experience; but even there, once one's mind has been calibrated to the novel environment, it's all just common sense.
And of course, then there's the other trope: "scientists confirm what everyone knew all along". Which says it all really.
Thank you. As to your last point: Someone once told me that on a psychology conference he attended, a group presented a study which “found” that when someone has a history of multiple short relationships, he/she is more likely to experience break-ups in further relationships... *sigh*
LP Koch: I *resonate* deeply with your message here. Now I'm off to read your other three essays (at least), which brought me here. I'm an engineer (civil) by training, a missiological educator (doctor of missiology) in early mid life and latterly educating myself to articulate a (personal) philosophy of life incorporating many of the foundations you are citing, but focused on a praxis-rather-than-creedal-based approach to the question : What might it mean to be a follower of Yeshua (the Jewish Messiah; Jesus Christ) in Post-Christendom contexts of the 21st century. 🧐☝️🤔 Blessings on your onwards journey.
"Science" as a method for determining what works and doesn't in the real world is fantastic. As an institution it's terrible: as it's subject to subversion by those who in their infinite, self-deluded hubris, think that they should rule the world.
So true. The activation of the inner latent understanding as you write. Common sense and gut feeling. It reminds me of my mechanic, who told me that when Covid started he was weary and took precautions, but after 3 weeks saw through it and that it was just BS. He is an example of many who are not great intellectuals but who have a good common sense and BS detector.
Thanks for this article, which I just now got around to read.
Also I think that this rigid science trains their "common sense" to seek that pattern which they believe is the answer.
Like the religious person who seek god in the clouds, they seek god in numbers.
Buried indeed, in their own beliefs of the "end". Linear thinking, the future is already plotted based on today.
Have you seen the show Westworld? Season 3 goes into how determinism cant really predict the future, unless you manipulated conditions to attain your prediction. Haha...
Indeed, there seems to be a strange connection between the idea of determinism and the idea to manipulate the world so that your idea of determinism holds true... Even though of course these are logically incompatible.
Fantastic piece. I've said many of these things myself to any who would listen. As a professional scientist, I absolutely abhor any presentation of results along the lines of "Amazing new results totally violate your common sense!" Quite aside from this being a mountebank's attempt to grab attention for often dodgy results with clickbaity, it reinforces precisely the poisonous message you identify: that science somehow trumps common sense, and that the hoi poloi should therefore abandon their common sense and simply trust the experts and Follow The Science™.
The truth is that science, real honest science, is nothing more than rigorously applied common sense. Anyone can do it. Anyone can understand it. The only reason results are sometimes 'surprising' is that scientists often examine phenomena outside of standard human experience; but even there, once one's mind has been calibrated to the novel environment, it's all just common sense.
And of course, then there's the other trope: "scientists confirm what everyone knew all along". Which says it all really.
Thank you. As to your last point: Someone once told me that on a psychology conference he attended, a group presented a study which “found” that when someone has a history of multiple short relationships, he/she is more likely to experience break-ups in further relationships... *sigh*
I wonder how much money was spent on that "discovery".
LP Koch: I *resonate* deeply with your message here. Now I'm off to read your other three essays (at least), which brought me here. I'm an engineer (civil) by training, a missiological educator (doctor of missiology) in early mid life and latterly educating myself to articulate a (personal) philosophy of life incorporating many of the foundations you are citing, but focused on a praxis-rather-than-creedal-based approach to the question : What might it mean to be a follower of Yeshua (the Jewish Messiah; Jesus Christ) in Post-Christendom contexts of the 21st century. 🧐☝️🤔 Blessings on your onwards journey.